The House Health and Human Resources Committee met this afternoon.
Committee Hearings
House Bill 3382 establishes a central reception center and emergency resource homes for foster children. The bill seeks to eliminate the practice of placing children in hotels due to a lack of foster care placements.
Markup & Passage
House Bill 2377 provides for transparency from the Department of Human Services relating to the child welfare system.
House Bill 2027 reduces the timeframe a foster care arrangement can receive additional protections from 18 months to six months or half the child’s life when the foster home is determined to be a fit and proper placement.
House Bill 2880 establishes a Parent Resource Navigator as an individual established through the Court Improvement Program or the Public Defender Services model who is assisting a parent or parents through requirements to be unified or reunified with their child or children.
House Bill 2503 provides a reloadable form of payment for clothing and approved necessity allowances for children in foster care.
House Bill 3344 establishes a grant program to fund the United States Food and Drug Administration’s drug development trials with ibogaine. The purpose of the bill is to secure the Administration’s approval as a medication for the treatment of opioid use disorder, PTSD, co-occurring substance use disorder, and any other neurological or mental health conditions.
House Bill 3343 adds crystalline polymorph psilocybin to the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs if scheduled or de-scheduled by the Food and Drug Administration.
