Bill Amendment: AZ HB2479 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Missing; abducted; runaway children
Status: 2024-04-10 - Chapter 146 [HB2479 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2024-HB2479-SENATE_-_Transportation_Technology_and_Missing_Children.html
Fifty-sixth Legislature Transportation, Technology and Missing Children
Second Regular Session H.B. 2479
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY AND MISSING CHILDREN
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2479
(Reference to House engrossed bill)
Page 2, line 12, strike "forty-eight twenty-four" insert "forty-eight"
Line 31, strike "every fourteen calendar days"
Line 35, after "work" insert ", when possible,"
Page 3, line 7, after "provide" strike remainder of line
Strike line 8
Line 9, strike "direct SUPERVISORs of these employees" insert "initial training to newly hired employees. a newly hired employee must receive this initial training before any children are assigned to the newly hired employee's caseload"
Page 4, line 20, after "shall" strike remainder of line
Line 21, strike "to"
Line 22, strike "uploaded to department software and shall" insert "distributed to each caseworker to"
Line 27, after the second "the" insert "governor, the"
Line 30, after the period insert "the names of missing, abducted or runaway children shall be kept confidential and may not be distributed outside of the MONTHLY report."
Between lines 38 and 39, insert:
"5. On the return of a runaway child to the department's care, the reason why the child ran away."
Line 40, strike "quarterly" insert "monthly"
Page 5, line 1, after "with" insert "ALL OF"
Between lines 5 and 6, insert:
"4. the percentage of times the department was in compliance with the requirements prescribed in subsections a, b, c and d of this section.
m. If the report submitted pursuant to subsection l of this section shows a less than ninety-five percent compliance rate with the requirements prescribed in subsection l, paragraph 4 of this section for more than four consecutive or nonconsecutive months in a twelve-month period, the department shall establish a missing, abducted and runaway children unit within the department. The missing, abducted and runaway children unit shall have at least four employees with at least one employee available twenty-four hours a day. The missing, abducted and runaway children unit may enter into contracts with any vendor necessary to ensure the department is in compliance with this section. if the missing, abducted and runaway children unit is established, the unit shall submit a report to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the joint legislative oversight committee on the DEPARTMENT of child safety established by section 41-1292. THe report shall do all of the following:
1. Identify the reasons why the department is not in compliance with the requirements prescribed in subsections a, b, c and d of this section.
2. Identify the methods by which the missing, abducted and runaway children unit will achieve a ninety-five percent compliance rate with the requirements prescribed in subsections a, b, c and d of this section.
3. include Organizational changes that the department will make to ensure compliance with the requirements PRESCRIBED in subsections a, b, c and d of this section.
4. recommend Legislative changes that are necessary to ensure the department's compliance with the requirements PRESCRIBED in subsections a, b, c and d of this section."
Reletter to conform
Page 5, line 20, after the period strike remainder of line
Strike lines 21 through 24
Amend title to conform
