FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 717

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRISAMORE.

1683H.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 211.036, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to reentry into the custody of the children’s division.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 211.036, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 211.036, to read as follows:

            211.036. If a [child] youth under the age of [eighteen] twenty-one is released from the custody of the children's division [of family services] and after such release it appears that it would be in such [child's] youth's best interest to have his or her custody returned to the children's division [of family services], the juvenile officer, the children's division [of family services] or the [child] youth may petition the court to return custody of such [child] youth to the division until the child is [eighteen] twenty-one years of age.

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