Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1104
Increases the standard of proof necessary to retain a child in protective custody after removal from the child's parent or guardian.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act says that a court shall order the return of a child taken into protective custody if the court finds that there is not clear and convincing evidence to support keeping the child from home. The Act also says that a DHS employee who does not return a child as ordered by the court has kidnapped the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.5). Increases the standard of proof necessary to retain a child in protective custody after removal from the child's parent or guardian. Expands the crime of kidnapping in the second degree to include circumstances when an employee of the Department of Human Services fails to comply with a court order to return a child taken into protective custody to the child's parent or guardian.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
February 27 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action3 actions on 3 days
In the SenateFeb 27 to Jun 27 · stopped120 days
Waiting for a committeeFeb 27 to Mar 34 days
JudiciaryMar 3 to Jun 27 · stopped116 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.