HB5214 HFAT Akers 2-23

Morgan 3345

Delegate Akers moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

H. B. 5214 -- “A BILL to amend and reenact §49-4-604 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to permitting a court the discretion to require a parent, who has been adjudicated as having abused and/or neglected their child, to undergo lab confirmed drug testing prior to reunification pursuant to an order entered after a dispositional child abuse or neglect hearing returning a child to his or her own home under supervision of the department; also relating to not permitting a child to return to the home for reunification if either parent residing in that home initially tests positive for alcohol or controlled substance for which they do not possess a valid and current prescription, or medical marijuana card; and requiring a hearing, to review any evidence of a laboratory confirmed positive drug or alcohol test and the potential impact of this evidence on any of the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law that were made in the court’s dispositional order, within 10 calendar days of the failure of the initial drug test by the parents.

Adopted

Rejected