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Introduced in the Senate on August 1, 2007, to allow reasonable efforts to be made by state officials to finalize an alternate permanency plan for a child removed from his or her family by the state concurrently with reasonable efforts to reunify the child with the family. In other words, the state could proceed on a “two track” plan. The bill is part of a foster care legislative package consisting of Senate Bills 668 to 672

The vote was 38 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 405 at Senate Journal 101)

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Senator Kahn asked and was granted unanimous consent to make a statement and moved that the statement be printed in the Journal. The motion prevailed. Senator Kahn's statement is as follows: This bill is a part of the package that we are currently discussing, and I certainly would like to thank Senator Jansen, the Senator from the 28th District, for his hard work on this bipartisan package. This particular bill is one that would authorize the Department of Human Services to implement concurrent planning. The idea in concurrent planning is to protect the child and allow towards a backup permanency plan in the event that the child cannot be returned home safely. Of course, the goal of concurrent planning is to ensure that children in foster care are placed in a permanent home as quickly as possible, and this bill is part of guaranteeing that opportunity to children. I ask for its passage.