Summary of Bills in Matrix

Children/Families/Education Issues

As of June 8, 2009

Listed below is the general topic of each bill in this category that RAIN is currently following. A discussion and/or explanation of RAIN's position on each bill is shown in blue.

• AB 76 (3)* (BDR 332)
  Expands exemptions from the provisions governing licensure of foster homes so that those provisions do not apply to a person who voluntarily provides care to a minor child who is in custody of a child protection agency and the caregiver is related to the child within the third degree of consanguinity.  Passed.
   
• AB 89 (3)* (BDR 334)
  Tightens prohibitions on employment of persons in child care facilities for whom there is a substantiated report of child abuse or neglect in a statewide central registry that collects information on the abuse or neglect of a child.  Passed.
   
• AB 103 (3) (BDR 102)
  Transfers responsibility to conduct audits of governmental facilities for children to the Legislative Auditor to assure such facilities are protecting the health, safety, and welfare of children in such facilities.  Bill Passed.
   
• AB 111 (3)
  Revises certain licensing requirements for the dependent, medical facilities and homes for individual residential care.  Passed.
   
• AB 191 (2) (BDR 827)
  removes the prospective expiration of a requirement that certain physical examinations in public schools include an examination of the height and weight of a representative sample of pupils.  Passed. 
   
• AB 262 (3) (BDR 961)
  AN ACT allowing certain married persons to remarry each other; revising provisions governing the documentation a person is required to present to obtain a marriage license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Recommendation:  (3)  Passed. 
   
• AB 263 (2) (BDR 509)
  Authorizes the Aging Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly in certain counties. Recommendation (2).  Passed.  
   
• AB 337 (3) (BDR 593)
  Creates the Office of Statewide Coordinator for Children Who Are Endangered by Drug Exposure in the Office of the Attorney General and makes various other changes concerning children who are endangered by drug exposure. (BDR 38-593)  Recommendation:  (3)  Passed. 
   
• AB 500 (2) (BDR 1156)
  Existing law provides that a person may consent to the adoption of his child, and the child will be relinquished either to an agency or to the person to whom consent to adopt is given, if the adoption is a specific adoption. (NRS 127.040, 127.053) Section 2 of this bill provides that, in a specific adoption, the person to whom consent is given assumes legal custody and legal responsibility for the child as soon as consent for the adoption is executed.  Sections 4-10 of this bill amend existing law to provide that if a person or a person’s spouse is within the fourth degree of consanguinity of a child and is adopting the child; such a person is not required to comply with certain requirements for adoption, such as home studies of the prospective adoptive parents. (NRS 127.043, 127.045, 127.053, 127.120, 127.127, 127.280, 127.2805)  Section 11 of this bill revises an exemption from criminal or civil liability for certain advertising mediums which accept advertisements concerning services related to adoptions from persons or agencies that are not licensed to provide such services. (NRS 127.310)  Section 13 of this bill provides that a court may find a parent unfit, and therefore, under certain circumstances, terminate his parental rights, if: (1) the parent is imprisoned and either cannot care for the child or the imprisonment will negatively impact the parent-child relationship; or (2) the father is convicted of sexual seduction or statutory sexual seduction of the mother which resulted in the conception of the child. This section also provides that if a father’s parental rights are terminated because of the sexual assault or statutory sexual seduction which resulted in the conception of the child, the father’s parental obligation to provide support is not terminated. (NRS 128.106)  Recommendation (2)* Passed. 
   
• ACR 28 (2) (BDR 1245)
  Designates a Homeless Youth Awareness Day 
   
• SB 342 (2) (BDR 478)
  Expands the relatives who receive preference when a child is placed in the custody of a person other than the parent of the child by a court, an agency which provides child welfare services or other person. Recommendation (2) Passed. 
   
• SB 343 (2) (BDR 477)
  Requires the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services to expedite the application of a person for treatment or services if the person is involved in the child welfare system. (BDR 38-477)  Recommendation:  (2) Passed.
   
• SB 344 (2) (BDR 475)
  Authorizes the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to create an interagency committee to evaluate the child welfare system. (BDR 38-475)  Recommendation:  (2) Passed. 
   
• SCR 4 (1) (BDR 476)
  Urges Development of a statewide standardized practice model for providing child and family services which focuses on the preservation of the family while ensuring the safe protection of children; assess the disproportionate number of minority children placed in foster care in this State and develop a strategy to address the disproportionality, including a mechanism for the ongoing collection and tracking of related data; identify targets to reduce, in a safe and efficient manner, the number of children in foster care and implement a system to monitor  the reduction efforts; ensure that allegations of child abuse and neglect are investigated properly before removing children from their homes; and develop and implement an assessment to determine the safety or risk of allowing a child to remain in his home. Recommendation:  (2)
   

     RAIN Position on Legislation

• (1) = High level of support (publicly stated)
• (2) = Moderate support
• (3) = Neutral
• (4) = Moderate Opposition
• (5) = Strong opposition (publicly stated)
• (6) = Proposal Awaiting Review by RAIN Board