Child in need of protection or services jurisdiction over a child based on another child from the child's home being placed outside the home under a juvenile court order and involuntary termination of parental rights on the grounds of three or more prior voluntary or involuntary terminations of parental rights

2. The child is at substantial risk of becoming the victim of abuse, based on reliable and credible information that another child in the home has been the victim of abuse (substantial risk of abuse).

3. The child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian neglects, refuses, or is unable for reasons other than poverty to provide necessary care, food, clothing, medical or dental care, or shelter so as to seriously endanger the physical health of the child (neglect).

4. The child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian is at substantial risk of neglect based on reliable and credible information that the parent, guardian, or legal custodian has neglected another child in the home (substantial risk of neglect).

This bill expands the substantial risk of abuse and substantial risk of neglect grounds for child in need of protection or services jurisdiction (CHIPS jurisdiction) by granting to the juvenile court CHIPS jurisdiction over a child: 1) who is at substantial risk of abuse based on the fact that another child from the child's home has been adjudged to be in need of protection or services based on abuse or substantial risk of abuse and is placed outside the home under a juvenile court order;

or 2) whose parent, guardian, or legal custodian is at substantial risk of neglect based on the fact that another child from the child's home has been adjudged to be in need of protection or services based on neglect or substantial risk of neglect and is placed outside the home under a juvenile court order.

Under current law, the juvenile court may order an involuntary termination of parental rights (TPR) on certain grounds, including the ground of prior involuntary TPR to another child, which is established by proving: 1) that the child has been adjudged to be in need of protection or services on the grounds of abandonment, abuse, or neglect or that the child was born after the filing of a petition for TPR to a sibling of the child on that TPR ground; and 2) that, within three years prior to the date of that adjudication or the birth of the child, the juvenile court has ordered an involuntary TPR with respect to another child of the parent.

This bill permits the juvenile court to order an involuntary TPR to a child on the ground of prior voluntary or involuntary TPR to another child, which is established by proving: 1) that the child has been adjudged to be in need of protection or services on the grounds of abandonment, abuse, substantial risk of abuse, neglect, or substantial risk of neglect or that the child was born after the filing of a petition for TPR to a sibling of the child on that TPR ground; and 2) that the juvenile court has ordered a voluntary or involuntary TPR with respect to three or more other children of the parent.