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12-8-509. Additional reporting required.
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12-8-509. Additional reporting required.
(a) The state agency or entity responsible for administering the twenty-four-hour toll-free Child Abuse Hotline or investigating an incident of neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B) shall:
(1) Develop and maintain statewide statistics of the incidents of neglect reported or investigated under § 12-18-103(14)(B);
(2)(A) Annually report no later than October 1 to the following:
(i) The Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth;
(ii) The House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs;
(iii) The Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor; and
(iv) The House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.
(B) The annual report under this section shall include all findings and statistics regarding incidents of neglect reported or investigated under § 12-18-103(14)(B), including, but not limited to, the following information:
(i) The age of the mother;
(ii) The type of illegal substance to which the newborn child was exposed prenatally;
(iii) The estimated gestational age of the newborn child at the time of birth; and
(iv) The newborn child's health problems; and
(3)(A) Notify each mandatory reporter who makes a call to the Child Abuse Hotline if the mandatory reporter's call is not accepted or is screened out on a subsequent Child Abuse Hotline supervisor review.
(B) The notification required under subdivision (a)(3)(A) of this section shall be made within forty-eight (48) hours, excluding weekends and holidays, after a mandatory reporter makes a call to the Child Abuse Hotline that is not accepted or is screened out on a subsequent Child Abuse Hotline supervisor review.
(b) If more than one (1) state agency or entity is responsible for administering t
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-8-509
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12-8-509. Additional reporting required.
(a) The state agency or entity responsible for administering the twenty-four-hour toll-free Child Abuse Hotline or investigating an incident of neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B) shall:
(1) Develop and maintain statewide statistics of the incidents of neglect reported or investigated under § 12-18-103(14)(B);
(2)(A) Annually report no later than October 1 to the following:
(i) The Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth;
(ii) The House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs;
(iii) The Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor; and
(iv) The House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.
(B) The annual report under this section shall include all findings and statistics regarding incidents of neglect reported or investigated under § 12-18-103(14)(B), including, but not limited to, the following information:
(i) The age of the mother;
(ii) The type of illegal substance to which the newborn child was exposed prenatally;
(iii) The estimated gestational age of the newborn child at the time of birth; and
(iv) The newborn child's health problems; and
(3)(A) Notify each mandatory reporter who makes a call to the Child Abuse Hotline if the mandatory reporter's call is not accepted or is screened out on a subsequent Child Abuse Hotline supervisor review.
(B) The notification required under subdivision (a)(3)(A) of this section shall be made within forty-eight (48) hours, excluding weekends and holidays, after a mandatory reporter makes a call to the Child Abuse Hotline that is not accepted or is screened out on a subsequent Child Abuse Hotline supervisor review.
(b) If more than one (1) state agency or entity is responsible for administering the twenty-four-hour toll-free Child Abuse Hotline or investigating an incident of neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B), then the reporting under this section shall be a collaborative effort by all state agencies or entities involved.
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12-18-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1)(A) “Abandonment” means:
(i) The failure of a parent to provide reasonable support and to maintain regular contact with a child through statement or contact when the failure is accompanied by an intention on the part of the parent to permit the condition to continue for an indefinite period in the future or the failure of a parent to support or maintain regular contact with a child without just cause; or
(ii) An articulated intent to forego parental responsibility.
(B) “Abandonment” does not include:
(i) Acts or omissions of a parent toward a married minor; or
(ii) A situation in which a child has disrupted his or her adoption and the adoptive parent has exhausted the available resources;
(2)(A) “Abortion” means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the unborn child.
(B) “Abortion” does not mean the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy if done with the intent to:
(i) Save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child;
(ii) Remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion; or
(iii) Remove an ectopic pregnancy;
(3)(A) “Abuse” means any of the following acts or omissions by a parent, guardian, custodian, foster parent, person eighteen (18) years of age or older living in the home with a child whether related or unrelated to the child, or any person who is entrusted with the child's care by a parent, guardian, cust
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-18-103
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 12-18-103. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.