1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to courts; children in need of protection or 
  1.3             services; modifying the definition of child in need of 
  1.4             protection or services; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.5             1996, section 260.015, subdivision 2a. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 260.015, 
  1.8   subdivision 2a, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 2a.  [CHILD IN NEED OF PROTECTION OR SERVICES.] 
  1.10  "Child in need of protection or services" means a child who is 
  1.11  in need of protection or services because the child: 
  1.12     (1) is abandoned or without parent, guardian, or custodian; 
  1.13     (2)(i) has been a victim of physical or sexual abuse, or 
  1.14  (ii) resides with or has resided with a victim of domestic child 
  1.15  abuse as defined in subdivision 24, (iii) resides with or would 
  1.16  reside with a perpetrator of domestic child abuse or child abuse 
  1.17  as defined in subdivision 28, or (iv) is a victim of emotional 
  1.18  maltreatment as defined in subdivision 5a; 
  1.19     (3) is without necessary food, clothing, shelter, 
  1.20  education, or other required care for the child's physical or 
  1.21  mental health or morals because the child's parent, guardian, or 
  1.22  custodian is unable or unwilling to provide that care; 
  1.23     (4) is without the special care made necessary by a 
  1.24  physical, mental, or emotional condition because the child's 
  1.25  parent, guardian, or custodian is unable or unwilling to provide 
  2.1   that care; 
  2.2      (5) is medically neglected, which includes, but is not 
  2.3   limited to, the withholding of medically indicated treatment 
  2.4   from a disabled infant with a life-threatening condition.  The 
  2.5   term "withholding of medically indicated treatment" means the 
  2.6   failure to respond to the infant's life-threatening conditions 
  2.7   by providing treatment, including appropriate nutrition, 
  2.8   hydration, and medication which, in the treating physician's or 
  2.9   physicians' reasonable medical judgment, will be most likely to 
  2.10  be effective in ameliorating or correcting all conditions, 
  2.11  except that the term does not include the failure to provide 
  2.12  treatment other than appropriate nutrition, hydration, or 
  2.13  medication to an infant when, in the treating physician's or 
  2.14  physicians' reasonable medical judgment: 
  2.15     (i) the infant is chronically and irreversibly comatose; 
  2.16     (ii) the provision of the treatment would merely prolong 
  2.17  dying, not be effective in ameliorating or correcting all of the 
  2.18  infant's life-threatening conditions, or otherwise be futile in 
  2.19  terms of the survival of the infant; or 
  2.20     (iii) the provision of the treatment would be virtually 
  2.21  futile in terms of the survival of the infant and the treatment 
  2.22  itself under the circumstances would be inhumane; 
  2.23     (6) is one whose parent, guardian, or other custodian for 
  2.24  good cause desires to be relieved of the child's care and 
  2.25  custody; 
  2.26     (7) has been placed for adoption or care in violation of 
  2.27  law; 
  2.28     (8) is without proper parental care because of the 
  2.29  emotional, mental, or physical disability, or state of 
  2.30  immaturity of the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian; 
  2.31     (9) is one whose behavior, condition, or environment is 
  2.32  such as to be injurious or dangerous to the child or others.  An 
  2.33  injurious or dangerous environment may include, but is not 
  2.34  limited to, the exposure of a child to criminal activity in the 
  2.35  child's home; 
  2.36     (10) has committed a delinquent act before becoming ten 
  3.1   years old; 
  3.2      (11) is a runaway; 
  3.3      (12) is an habitual truant; or 
  3.4      (13) has committed four or more acts of juvenile 
  3.5   delinquency or juvenile petty offenses; or 
  3.6      (14) is one whose custodial parent's parental rights to 
  3.7   another child have been involuntarily terminated within the past 
  3.8   five years.