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KS HB2076

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2025

Primary Sponsor

Child Welfare and Foster Care

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Reduces the maximum time a court can authorize placing a child in a secure facility from 60 days to 45 days, inclusive of weekends and legal holidays, for authorizations granted after July 1, 2025

  • Eliminates the court's ability to grant extensions of secure facility placement, which previously allowed two additional 60-day extension periods

  • Applies to children adjudicated as "in need of care" who have violated a valid court order to remain in placement and are unlikely to be available for future court proceedings

  • Amends K.S.A. 38-2260 of the Revised Kansas Code for Care of Children

  • Takes effect upon publication in the statute book

Legislative Description

Reducing the authorized amount of days that a child may be placed in a secure facility and eliminating the court's option to extend such authorization.

Last Action

House Referred to Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care

1/23/2025

Committee Referrals

Child Welfare and Foster Care1/23/2025

Full Bill Text

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