SM 5/a CYFD RESTRUCTURING TASK FORCE

Sen Linda M. Lopez

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 Senate Memorial 5 (SM 5) relates to the structure of the state Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD). 

 The memorial asks that the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) establish a task force to evaluate the organization of the agency and how best to restructure it. It provides background on the agency and sets out membership for the task force, from which recommendations would be needed by November 15, 2024.

Copies of the memorial are to be sent to the Governor, CYFD secretar, 112 members of the Legislature, LFC and Legislative Health and Human Services Committee.
 

 SM 5 was amended on the Senate floor to specify that one member of the task force be a tribal member with lived experience of the effects of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the Indian Family Protection Act or other, similar provisions of the Children's Code.