No. CS/HB 395
Dependent Children; Requires DCF & each community-based care lead agency to coordinate with certain organizations & meet quarterly for specified purpose; authorizes such meeting to be in person or via teleconference or other electronic means; requires such meetings to have formal agenda; requires department & each community-based care lead agency to make certain information available on their respective websites; requires, beginning in specified year, department & each community-based care lead agency to publish on their respective websites biannual report containing specified information.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Children and Families and every community-based care lead agency must meet at least quarterly with organizations that empower children who have lived experience in the child welfare system.
Each meeting needs a formal agenda, and the agenda and minutes must be posted on the department's or agency's website for the public to see.
Starting in 2027, the department and each lead agency must publish a report twice a year explaining how they acted on the input those meetings produced.
AIDCF and each community-based care lead agency must meet at least quarterly, in person or electronically, with organizations focused on empowering children with lived experience, to gather input on the child welfare system. Each meeting needs a formal, publicly posted agenda and minutes.
AIBeginning in 2027, DCF and each community-based care lead agency must publish a report on their websites every February 1 and August 1 describing how they implemented the suggestions gathered from the required meetings.