West Virginia Senate Bill 528

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 24 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-21 - Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to require centralized intake to have a process for a family assessment track and investigative track for protective services and to define these terms, to revise the process for centralized intake to incorporate these two difference tracks and to require repeat calls within 30 days to be investigated. Making changes to the child welfare data dashboard to require more frequent reporting, to require data trending and permit the data to be searchable with appropriate data suppression to protect privacy, and adding fatality and near fatality child data to the dashboard.

Requiring DHS to provide investigative and assessment services

Sen. Mike Woelfel [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-21	Senate	Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading
2024-02-21	Senate	Read 1st time
2024-02-21	Senate	Immediate consideration
2024-02-21	Senate	Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
2024-01-24	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2024-01-24	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2024-01-24	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2024-01-24	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
49	1	201	Amended Code	Citation Text
49	11	101	Amended Code	Citation Text
49	2	101	Amended Code	Citation Text
49	2	809	Amended Code	Citation Text
49	2	813	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=528&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb528%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=528
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb528%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=528