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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 1233
March 19, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Emerson
,
Billings
,
Haywood
,
Palmeri
,
Sinicki
and
Stubbs
. Referred to Committee on Children and Families.
AB1233,1,4
1
An Act
to renumber and amend
48.227 (2);
to amend
48.227 (4) (a);
to
2
create
48.227 (2) (b) of the statutes;
relating to:
notifying a child welfare
3
agency and a parent, guardian, and legal custodian of the presence of a child
4
in a runaway home.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a licensed foster home, group home, or shelter may provide housing or services to a child runaway if both the child and his or her parent, guardian, or legal custodian consent to the provision of housing or services. If the parent, guardian, or legal custodian does not consent, the foster home, group home, or shelter must notify the agency responsible for providing child welfare services of the child’s presence in the home or shelter within 12 hours of the child’s arrival at the home or shelter. After such notification, the agency must notify the parent, guardian, and legal custodian as soon as possible of the child’s presence in that home. Under current law, a hearing is then held to determine whether the child must be returned to the parent, guardian, or legal custodian or is permitted to stay at the foster home, group home, or shelter for up to 20 days.
This bill extends from 12 to 72 hours the time after a child runaway’s arrival that a foster home, group home, or shelter must notify the agency responsible for providing child welfare services of the child’s presence in the home or shelter. Under the bill, an intake worker must only notify the parent, guardian, and legal custodian of the child if it is in the best interest of the child. The bill also specifies that, if it is in the child’s best interest, no later than six hours after the child arrives, the home or shelter must notify the parent, guardian, and legal custodian of the child’s presence. If the parent, guardian, and legal custodian cannot be reached for the purpose of this notification, the home or shelter must attempt to reach them for that purpose at least every six hours until successful.
Under current law, if the child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian does not consent to the temporary care and housing of the child at the home or shelter, a hearing must be held on the issue within 24 hours of the time that the child entered the home or shelter. The bill changes this deadline to within 24 hours of the time the agency responsible for providing child welfare services is notified that the child entered the home or shelter.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB1233,1
1
Section
1
.
48.227 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 48.227 (2) (a) and
2
amended to read:
AB1233,2,8
3
48.227
(2)
(a) Any person who operates a home under sub. (1) and licensed
4
under s. 48.48 or 48.75, when engaged in sheltering a runaway child without the
5
consent of the child’s parent, guardian
,
or legal custodian, shall notify the intake
6
worker of the presence of the child in the home within
12
72
hours.
The
If it is in
7
the best interest of the child, the
intake worker shall notify the parent, guardian
,
8
and legal custodian as soon as possible of the child’s presence in that home.
AB1233,2,12
9
(c)
A hearing shall be held under sub. (4). The child shall not be removed from
10
the home except with the approval of the court under sub. (4). This subsection does
11
not prohibit the parent, guardian
,
or legal custodian from conferring with the child
12
or the person operating the home.
AB1233,2
13
Section
2
.
48.227 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1233,3,5
14
48.227
(2)
(b) If it is in the best interest of the child, no later than 6 hours
1
after the child enters the home under sub. (1), the person who operates the home
2
shall notify the parent, guardian, and legal custodian of the child’s presence in the
3
home. If the parent, guardian, and legal custodian cannot be reached for the
4
purpose of notification, the person who operates the home shall attempt to reach
5
them for that purpose at least every 6 hours until successful.
AB1233,3
6
Section
3
.
48.227 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1233,3,14
7
48.227
(4)
(a) If the child’s parent, guardian
,
or legal custodian does not
8
consent to the temporary care and housing of the child at the runaway home as
9
provided under sub. (2) or (3), a hearing shall be held on the issue by the judge or a
10
circuit court commissioner within 24 hours of the time that the
intake worker is
11
notified under sub. (2) (a) that the
child entered the runaway home, excluding
12
Saturdays, Sundays
,
and legal holidays. The intake worker shall notify the child
13
and the child’s parent, guardian
or
, and
legal custodian of the time, place
,
and
14
purpose of the hearing.
AB1233,3,15
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