AB 2468, as introduced, Donnelly. Child death review teams.
Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to work with state and local child death review teams and child protective services agencies to identify child death cases that were, or should have been, reported to or by county child protective services agencies. The State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Public Health, and the Department of Justice are required to, among other things, develop a plan to track and maintain data on child deaths from abuse or neglect.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 11174.35 of the Penal Code is amended
2to read:
The State Department of Social Services shall work
4with state and local child death review teams and child protective
5services agencies in order to identify child death cases that were,
P2 1or should have been, reported to or by county child protective
2services agencies. Findings made pursuant to this section shall be
3used to determine the extent of child abuse or neglect fatalities
4occurring in families known to child protective services agencies
5and to define child welfare training needs for reporting,
6cross-reporting, data integration, and involvement by child
7protective services agencies in multiagency review in child deaths.
8The State Department of Social Services, the State Department of
9begin insert Publicend insert
Healthbegin delete Servicesend delete, and the Department of Justice shall develop
10a plan to track and maintain data on child deaths from abuse or
11neglect, and submit this plan, not later than December 1, 1997, to
12the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, the
13Assembly Committee on Human Services, and the chairs of the
14fiscal committees of the Legislature.
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