A Senate committee Tuesday approved a bill that would limit state dollars that could go to salaries at two types of organizations that play key roles in the child-welfare and mental-health systems.
The age requirement for child booster seats would be boosted up a year and day care centers would have to install alarms in vans used to transport children under two bills unanimously approved by a Florida Senate committee on Wednesday. Right now, Florida requires children up to the age of five to be placed in […]
Florida bills seek to change booster seat, day care van requirements
Senators hope to help keep children safe
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The age requirement for child booster seats would be boosted up a year and day care centers would have to install alarms in vans used to transport children under two bills unanimously approved by a Florida Senate committee on Wednesday.
Right now, Florida requires children up to the age of five to be placed in a car seat or booster seat. Republican Sen. Keith Perry s bill would raise that age to six.
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“Data shows that if we can move this by a year we will save a lot children s lives, Perry told the Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee.
Guardian ad litem program in Florida draws scrutiny
Dara Kam, Senior reporter, News Service of Florida
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The head of Florida’s guardian ad litem program defended the agency’s efforts Tuesday to a Senate committee, following a report that said the organization’s funding has increased while the number of children it represents has dropped.
Alan Abramowitz, who has served as executive director of the program for more than a decade, pushed back against the report during an appearance before the Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee.
The report, issued last month by the Legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, or OPPAGA, identified a number of issues in the operation of the program, which receives state and local funds to represent abused, neglected and abandoned children in dependency cases.
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