ID H0776

Requires the Department of Health and Welfare to verify reported risk factors within 12 hours when a mandatory reporter identifies a caregiver of a child under one year old with specified concerns, triggering a Priority I response and full safety assessment if verified.

Defines triggering risk factors as: appearance on the child protection central registry within 10 years, conviction for injury to a child, prior termination of parental rights, or having a child born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Safety assessments must evaluate caregiver compliance with court-ordered conditions, the child's living environment, and summarize prior abuse/neglect investigations and services provided to household members.

Law enforcement agencies reporting to the department must include any known risk factors from the specified list in their reports.

Declared an emergency measure taking effect immediately upon passage; explicitly states a medical condition or diagnosis alone does not create a presumption of abuse or neglect.