Medical Placement for High-acuity Children

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Medical Placement for High-acuity Children; Requiring that specific needs of a high-acuity child be considered when determining a child’s best interest; revising the role of and services provided by a Child Protection Team; providing for the placement of a high-acuity child; revising the goals of multidisciplinary teams; revising the participants in a multidisciplinary team; requiring a licensed health care professional to perform a medical screening for certain conditions on a child who is removed from the home and maintained in an out-of-home placement, etc.

Every action

6 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Jan 9, 2026SenateFiled
2. Jan 16, 2026CommitteeReferred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
3. Jan 22, 2026SenateIntroduced
4. Feb 11, 2026SenatePending withdrawal
5. Feb 19, 2026CommitteeWithdrawn from Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 356 · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
6. Feb 19, 2026SenateWithdrawn from further consideration -SJ 356

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Corey SimonR Primary sponsor · District 3