The Department of Human Services or the Department of Child Protection Services may employ a sufficient number of new family protection specialists, youth counselors and clerical staff to reduce the caseload sizes for social workers and youth counselors of each department and to reduce the workload on clerical staff, if funds are appropriated to the department for that purpose.Laws, 1994, ch. 649, § 21; Laws, 2004, ch. 489, § 6; Laws, 2006, ch. 600, § 8, eff. 7/1/2006.Amended by Laws, 2023, ch. 516, HB 1149,§ 68, eff. 7/1/2023.
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