2004 Senate Bill 1444 ↩

Senate Roll Call 746: Passed

To require a lawyer appointed by a family court to represent a child in a case involving neglect or abandonment to review an agency case file before a hearing for termination of parental rights; specify the instances in which the lawyer would have to meet with and observe a child; allow a child to be placed with the parent of a man believed to be the putative father in some cases; and revise the time frame for a foster care review board to investigate a change in foster care placement after the foster care parents appealed the change.