Bill Title: As introduced, requires the department to provide weekly mental health counseling to each child in a detention or shelter care facility; requires mental health providers to be licensed and consider the findings and recommendations of any validated risk and needs assessment or individualized case plan relevant to the child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 56; Title 63; Title 71 and Chapter 1052 of the Public Acts of 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-02 - Def. to Summer Study in Children & Families Subcommittee [HB0988 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

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