Bill Text: CT SB00317 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Failure To Report Child Abuse And Neglect By Certain Mandated Reporters.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-26 - Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate [SB00317 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-SB00317-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 317
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 1195
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Referred to Committee on COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN
Introduced by:
(KID)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE FAILURE TO REPORT CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT BY CERTAIN MANDATED REPORTERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 17a-101o of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2018):

(a) If the Commissioner of Children and Families suspects or knows that a mandated reporter, as defined in section 17a-101, employed by a local or regional board of education, has failed to make a report that a child has been abused or neglected or placed in immediate risk of serious harm within the time period prescribed in sections 17a-101a to 17a-101d, inclusive, and section 17a-103, the commissioner shall make a record of such delay and develop and maintain a database of such records. The commissioner shall investigate such delayed reporting and report the findings of such investigation and documentation of concerns related to such findings, if applicable, to such local or regional board of education, the superintendent of the school district in which the mandated reporter is employed and the Department of Education. Such investigation shall be conducted in accordance with the policy developed in subsection (b) of this section, and include the actions taken by the employing local or regional board of education or superintendent of schools for the district in response to such employee's failure to report.

(b) The Department of Children and Families shall develop a policy for the investigation of delayed reports by mandated reporters. Such policy shall include, but not be limited to, when referrals to the appropriate law enforcement agency for delayed reporting are required and when the department shall require mandated reporters who have been found to have delayed making a report to participate in the educational and training program pursuant to subsection (b) of section 17a-101a.

(c) For purposes of this section, "child" includes any victim described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 17a-101a.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2018	17a-101o

KID	Joint Favorable
ED	Joint Favorable