HB 485 -- Services for Children and Minors

Co-Sponsors:  Johnson (90), Byrd

Currently, the law governing child abuse and neglect
investigations requires parents to be notified before their child
is interviewed when the parents are not the alleged abusers.
This bill specifies that parents must be notified before their
child is interviewed when the parents are not the alleged abusers
and the abuse is alleged to have occurred in a school or a child
care facility.  Current law also prohibits the Division of Family
Services from meeting with a child in a location where abuse is
alleged to have occurred.  The bill removes that prohibition and
instead prohibits the division from meeting with the child at the
child's school or child care facility.

The bill also allows court-appointed attorneys for parents and
guardians ad litem in termination of parental rights cases to be
awarded reasonable attorney fees, as determined by the court.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated July 25, 2003 at 10:12 am