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2012 SESSION

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HB 445 Adoption; various changes to procedures.

Introduced by: David J. Toscano | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Adoption procedures.  Makes various changes to adoption procedures, including establishing a procedure for review of petitions filed for the purpose of obtaining a juvenile and domestic relations district court's assistance with the execution of consent to an adoption when the consent is executed pursuant to the laws of another state; expanding the venue for consent hearings in parental placement adoptions to include any city or county in the Commonwealth, provided that diligent efforts are made to conduct the hearing where the child was born, where the birth parents reside, or where the adoptive parents reside; eliminating the need for parental consent for an adoption in cases in which a birth parent has, without just cause, neither visited nor contacted the child for a period of six months immediately prior to the filing of a petition for adoption or a petition to accept consent to an adoption; adding language setting forth requirements for establishment of a date of birth for a child adopted from a foreign country; and clarifying the requirements for stepparent adoptions. The bill also makes changes to the process of registering with the Putative Father Registry.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/12  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100043D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/03/12  House: Committee substitute printed 12104680D-H1  pdf
• 02/08/12  House: Printed as engrossed 12104680D-EH1  pdf | impact statement
• 03/05/12  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB445ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 03/30/12  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House amendments
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• Senate amendments engrossed

HISTORY

• 01/10/12  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100043D
• 01/10/12  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/13/12  House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
• 01/30/12  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/12  House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/12  House: Committee substitute printed 12104680D-H1
• 02/07/12  House: Read first time
• 02/08/12  House: Read second time
• 02/08/12  House: Committee substitute agreed to 12104680D-H1
• 02/08/12  House: Amendment by Delegate Toscano agreed to
• 02/08/12  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB445EH1
• 02/08/12  House: Printed as engrossed 12104680D-EH1
• 02/09/12  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/09/12  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/10/12  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/10/12  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/22/12  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/24/12  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/27/12  Senate: Read third time
• 02/27/12  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
• 02/27/12  Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
• 02/27/12  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 02/27/12  Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/28/12  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/29/12  House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
• 02/29/12  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
• 03/05/12  House: Enrolled
• 03/05/12  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB445ER)
• 03/05/12  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/07/12  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/30/12  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 424 (effective 7/1/12)
• 03/30/12  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424)