Kay Floyd voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Amends Background Check Requirements for Child Supervised Visitors
Vote to pass a bill that amends supervised visitations for parents and specifies supervised visitors would have to go through a background check and judges would have to be aware of any criminal history.
Authorizes the associate district judge in each county to select trained volunteers to provide supervised visitation between a noncustodial parent and a child (Sec. 1).
Establishes the responsibilities of the Oklahoma Child Supervised Visitation Program: establishing training requirements for volunteers, writing protocol, developing application forms (Sec. 1).
Prohibits a district court from the following (Sec. 1):
Requiring state agencies location or state employee to observe any supervised visitation; or
Appoint an untrained third party to observe a supervised visitation.
Requires all third party volunteers to receive written approval upon accomplishing the following:
A national criminal history record check must be conducted 1 year prior to the appointment of the volunteer;
A signed affidavit from the volunteer accepting the rules of supervision; and
Any testimony be the volunteer deemed necessary by the court to determine their fitness.
Establishes that all volunteers must be able to see near the interactions between the supervised parent and the child (Sec. 1).
Specifies the volunteers required to make up a judicial district supervised visitation team (Sec. 1).
Prohibits the visitation team or volunteer to be personally charged with any liability unless acting dishonestly, willfully committing a criminal act or being grossly negligent (Sec. 1).
Authorizes the court to determine rebuttable presumptions if the visitation is not in the best interests of the child (Sec. 2).
Establishes the following as determining factors of custody (Sec. 2):
Is subject to the registration requirements of Sex Offenders Registration Act;
Convicted of a crime listed in Oklahoma Child Abuse Reporting Preventation Act;
Is alcohol-dependent person or drug-dependent person;
Has been convicted of domestic abuse in the past 5 years; or
Had custody, guardianship, or visitation rights terminated due to failure to complete any court-ordered substance abuse or mental health treatment.
Title: Amends Background Check Requirements for Child Supervised Visitors