The Department of Child Protection Services is authorized to establish an online automated child welfare information system, if funds are appropriated to the department for that purpose, to give the department the capability to supply foster care, adoption and child abuse and neglect data to the federal Department of Health and Human Services in a specified format as required, and to help the department in tracking child abuse and neglect referrals and the number of children affected in those referrals.Laws, 1994, ch. 649, § 25, eff. 7/1/1994.Amended by Laws, 2023, ch. 516, HB 1149,§ 71, eff. 7/1/2023.
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