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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2243
3	3	By Committee on Judiciary
4	4	Requested by Representative Proctor on behalf of Michelle Richart
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6	6	AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to children in need of
7	7	care; creating a referral process to a military family advocacy program
8	8	for cases involving children of military personnel; requiring the
9	9	secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of
10	10	understanding with military installations; amending K.S.A. 38-2230
11	11	and repealing the existing section.
12	12	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13	13	New Section 1. (a) When the secretary for children and families
14	14	makes a preliminary investigation pursuant to K.S.A. 38-2230, and
15	15	amendments thereto, and the child who is the subject of the investigation
16	16	has a parent or legal guardian who is military personnel at a military
17	17	installation, the secretary shall make a referral to a military family
18	18	advocacy program to provide the family with services that such program
19	19	offers.
20	20	(b) The secretary shall enter into a memorandum of understanding
21	21	with a military family advocacy program at each military installation in
22	22	Kansas for the purpose of referring cases involving children with a parent
23	23	or legal guardian who is military personnel at a military installation to
24	24	such military family advocacy program for services. The memorandum of
25	25	understanding shall include:
26	26	(1) A method for identifying whether a child has a parent or legal
27	27	guardian who is military personnel at a military installation;
28	28	(2) the process for referring identified cases to the military family
29	29	advocacy program;
30	30	(3) a requirement that the secretary notify the military family
31	31	advocacy program when the secretary has referred a case involving a child
32	32	with a parent or legal guardian who is military personnel to the county or
33	33	district attorney for the purpose of filing a petition pursuant to K.S.A. 38-
34	34	2233, and amendments thereto; and
35	35	(4) provisions that require compliance with confidentiality
36	36	requirements in state and federal law.
37	37	(c) Nothing in this section shall prevent the secretary for children and
38	38	families from taking action to protect the health and welfare of the child as
39	39	necessary, including recommending to the county or district attorney that a
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75	75	petition be filed pursuant to K.S.A. 38-2233, and amendments thereto.
76	76	(d) As used in this section, "military family advocacy program"
77	77	means a program established by the United States department of defense
78	78	and provided at a military installation to address child abuse and neglect in
79	79	military families.
80	80	(e) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the revised
81	81	Kansas code for care of children.
82	82	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 38-2230 is hereby amended to read as follows: 38-
83	83	2230. Whenever any person furnishes information to the secretary that a
84	84	child appears to be a child in need of care, the department shall make a
85	85	preliminary inquiry to determine whether the interests of the child require
86	86	further action be taken. Whenever practicable, the inquiry shall include a
87	87	preliminary investigation of the circumstances which were the subject of
88	88	the information, including the home and environmental situation and, the
89	89	previous history of the child and the military status of a parent or legal
90	90	guardian of the child pursuant to section 1, and amendments thereto. If
91	91	reasonable grounds to believe abuse or neglect exist, immediate steps shall
92	92	be taken to protect the health and welfare of the abused or neglected child
93	93	as well as that of any other child under the same care who may be harmed
94	94	by abuse or neglect. After the inquiry, if the secretary determines it is not
95	95	otherwise possible to provide those services necessary to protect the
96	96	interests of the child, the secretary shall recommend to the county or
97	97	district attorney that a petition be filed.
98	98	Sec. 3. K.S.A. 38-2230 is hereby repealed.
99	99	Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
100	100	publication in the statute book.
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