SB 6730 - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

Requires the department of social and health services or supervising agency to: (1) Inform the parent, verbally and in writing, what relatives the agency has considered for placement and the outcome of that consideration; and

(2) Provide a care provider, currently caring for a dependent child, with a minimum of five days' written notice of the department's or supervising agency's intent to remove a child from the home of the care provider unless there is an imminent risk of harm to the child if the removal does not occur before the five-day period.

Requires the department of social and health services to establish and maintain one or more culturally diverse and responsive child protection teams in each administrative region of the children's administration in the department.

Excludes from the duties of a guardian ad litem, the conducting of investigations into child abuse or neglect allegations related to their clients that run parallel to the department of social and health services' abuse or neglect investigations.