HB 2798 - DIGEST
(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

Creates an initiative to support early interventions with substance-abusing parents through county treatment courts.

Requires the family and juvenile court improvement grant program to: (1) Develop standards for baby courts;

(2) Develop a process where a superior court may apply for grant funds from the grant program to establish a baby court;

(3) Distribute grant funds to support baby courts in five superior courts;

(4) Develop and define the outcome measures for baby courts;

(5) Collect outcome measure data that is included in an annual report that summarizes the results of baby courts during the previous year; and

(6) Sponsor and coordinate training for judicial officers and other professionals that participate in baby courts receiving grant funding.