Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3141

E Creating a state prevention council to develop a unified state strategy to
ensure access to comprehensive high quality early childhood development and
family support services and resources for children and families; providing for
legislative, county, public and state agency appointments to the council and
designating the attorney general and the chief justice of the supreme court as
members; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to
provide technical assistance to the council; specifying council duties including
development of a long term state prevention plan to reduce child abuse and
neglect, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, truancy and other socially
destructive behavior, requiring the council to submit the plan and
recommendations to the governor and legislature by a certain date, requiring
subsequent biannual review, revision and reports; appropriating money to the
commissioner of children,families and learning for the council and to the
commissioner of health for home visiting programs, specifying certain required
uses (ra, ja)