Senate bill 140 has recently been passed by the House Health and Welfare committee, and will go to the full House for consideration. It is a revised version of Senate bill 141.

"In the revised legislation, [Kentucky State Rep. Tom] Burch calls for a panel of top state child-protection officials to carefully review every recommendation to terminate parental rights before that recommendation is sent to a judge."

The bill addresses concerns that child in foster care are too quickly removed from their homes and parental rights are too quickly terminated.

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