Bill Text: IN HB1040 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Child in need of services petitions.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Senator Zakas added as cosponsor [HB1040 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1040-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 31-34.
Synopsis: Child in need of services petitions. Allows a prosecuting
attorney to request a juvenile court to authorize the filing of a petition
alleging that a child is a child in need of services, and requires a
prosecuting attorney to represent the interests of the state in the child
in need of services proceeding, unless the prosecuting attorney and the
department of child services agree that the department shall represent
the interests of the state in that proceeding. (The introduced version of
this bill was prepared by the department of child services interim study
committee.)
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human
Affairs.
February 14, 2013, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
February 19, 2013, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
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(1) may request the juvenile court to authorize the filing of a petition alleging that a child is a child in need of services; and
(2) shall represent the interests of the state at this proceeding and at all subsequent proceedings on the petition.
(b) A prosecuting attorney:
(1) may request the juvenile court to authorize the filing of a petition alleging that a child is a child in need of services under IC 31-34-1; and
(2) shall represent the interests of the state at this proceeding and at all subsequent proceedings on the petition, unless the prosecuting attorney and the department agree that the department shall represent the interests of the state at this proceeding and at all subsequent proceedings on the petition.