Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF3336

Relating to child protection; requiring and providing for initial and periodic
criminal and child maltreatment background checks of court services personnel
investigating custodial arrangements and parenting time supervisors, specifying
certain duties of the commissioner of human services or county welfare agencies
and the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA), granting subjects of the
background studies certain rights to be informed and to challenge the accuracy
and completeness of information contained in the results; increasing the penalty
for falsely reporting child abuse; expanding the requirement for use of a
question and answer interviewing format in alleged child maltreatment cases to
agencies responsible for assessing maltreatment reports and to local law
enforcement agencies, requiring interviewer use of the published practice
guidelines of the American professional society on the abuse of children
relating to interviewing methods and procedures (mk),