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House Amendment 3815

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 208, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 2, by striking lines 8 through 16.
  1  4    #2.  Page 2, line 23, by striking the words "Two
  1  5 mental health professionals who are" and inserting the
  1  6 following:  "One mental health professional who is".
  1  7    #3.  Page 2, line 25, by striking the words "Two
  1  8 social workers who are" and inserting the following:
  1  9 "One social worker who is".
  1 10    #4.  Page 3, line 2, by striking the words "Three
  1 11 others" and inserting the following:  "One other".
  1 12    #5.  Page 4, line 35, by striking the words "areas
  1 13 of the state" and inserting the following:  "of the
  1 14 department's county clusters".
  1 15    #6.  Page 5, line 8, by inserting after the word
  1 16 "assessment." the following:  "The department shall
  1 17 commence the assessment within seventy-two hours of
  1 18 the receipt of the report."
  1 19    #7.  Page 5, line 34, by striking the words "and
  1 20 shall" and inserting the following:  "within twenty-
  1 21 one calendar days of the receipt of the report.  The
  1 22 assessment shall".
  1 23    #8.  Page 6, by striking lines 10 through 20 and
  1 24 inserting the following:
  1 25    "6.  The department shall provide the county
  1 26 attorney with a written copy of any assessment which
  1 27 includes a recommendation for a juvenile or criminal
  1 28 court action or petition.  The county attorney shall
  1 29 notify the department of any action taken concerning
  1 30 an assessment provided by the department."
  1 31    #9.  Page 6, line 32, by striking the words "The
  1 32 case was referred for" and inserting the following:
  1 33 "A petition was filed requesting".
  1 34    #10.  Page 6, line 35, by striking the word "The"
  1 35 and inserting the following:  "In the opinion of a
  1 36 health practitioner or mental health professional,
  1 37 the".
  1 38    #11.  Page 7, by inserting after line 10 the
  1 39 following:
  1 40    "c.  If information is placed in the central
  1 41 registry as a case of founded child abuse, all of the
  1 42 provisions of sections 235A.13 to 235A.23 which apply
  1 43 to a case of founded child abuse shall apply to a case
  1 44 of founded child abuse under this section."
  1 45    #12.  Page 8, by inserting after line 5 the
  1 46 following:
  1 47    "Sec.    .  DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES PILOT
  1 48 PROJECTS.  In implementing the pilot projects for
  1 49 child abuse assessment required under section 232.71A,
  1 50 as enacted by this Act, the department shall apply a
  2  1 special protocol for investigating those child abuse
  2  2 reports in which previous reports involving the same
  2  3 family have been determined to be unfounded and the
  2  4 alleged perpetrator does not have a record of founded
  2  5 child abuse.  If an intake worker or other child abuse
  2  6 investigation worker has knowledge that five or more
  2  7 reports determined to be unfounded have been made in
  2  8 the two-year period preceding the report concerning
  2  9 the same alleged perpetrator or family member of the
  2 10 alleged perpetrator, a special protocol may be
  2 11 applied.  Under the special protocol, an assessment
  2 12 may be made by telephone contact or other means to
  2 13 shorten the assessment process concerning reports in
  2 14 which there has been a previous investigation or
  2 15 assessment and the worker has past experience which
  2 16 suggests the report may be unfounded."
  2 17    #13.  Page 8, by striking lines 6 through 14.
  2 18    #14.  By renumbering, relettering, or redesignating
  2 19 and correcting internal references as necessary.  
  2 20 
  2 21 
  2 22                              
  2 23 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
  2 24 DAGGETT of Union, Chairperson
  2 25 SF 208.701 76
  2 26 jp/sc
     

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