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2008 SESSION
SB 171 Adoption; former adoptive parent who stood in loco parentis may petition to adopt child.
Introduced by: Harry B. Blevins | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Adoption by former stepparents. Allows former step-parents to adopt the child they were a stepparent to, if they stood in loco parentis to the child, as if they were still the stepparent of the child. Also allows parents who adopted a child in a foreign jurisdiction, who then divorced before the child was adopted in Virginia, to adopt or readopt the child.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/08 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 087775204 pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 080282204-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/03/08 House: Committee substitute printed 089589204-H1 pdf
- 03/08/08 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB171ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/23/08 Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB171ER2) pdf
- 04/23/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/08 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 087775204
- 01/07/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/01/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 080282204-S1
- 02/01/08 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/08 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/08 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/08 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 080282204-S1
- 02/05/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB171S1
- 02/06/08 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/08 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/12/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/12/08 House: Read first time
- 02/12/08 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/21/08 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/08 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/29/08 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/08 House: Committee substitute printed 089589204-H1
- 03/04/08 House: Read second time
- 03/05/08 House: Read third time
- 03/05/08 House: Committee substitute agreed to 089589204-H1
- 03/05/08 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB171H1
- 03/05/08 House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/08 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/08 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/08 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/08/08 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB171ER)
- 03/08/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/11/08 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 04/22/08 Senate: Placed on Calendar
- 04/23/08 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 0-N)
- 04/23/08 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (97-Y 0-N)
- 04/23/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N)
- 04/23/08 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/23/08 Senate: Reenrolled
- 04/23/08 Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB171ER2)
- 04/23/08 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/23/08 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/23/08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 868 (effective 7/1/08)
- 04/23/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868)