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2016 SESSION

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HB 589 Social Services, Department of; filing of petitions by designated nonattorney employees.

Introduced by: Jeffrey L. Campbell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Filing of petitions and motions by designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services; practice of law; duties of local directors of social services. Allows designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services to file certain petitions and motions relating to child protective services and foster care services and provides that such filing is not considered the unauthorized practice of law. The bill further requires a local director of social services to designate nonattorney employees who are authorized to file certain petitions and motions relating to child protective services, foster care services, and support and states that all petitions or motions filed by nonattorney employees of local departments of social services prior to July 1, 2016, are valid.

FULL TEXT

• 01/11/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103955D  pdf | impact statement
• 01/27/16  House: Committee substitute printed 16104108D-H1  pdf | impact statement

HISTORY

• 01/11/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103955D
• 01/11/16  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/16  House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
• 01/20/16  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/16  House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/16  House: Committee substitute printed 16104108D-H1
• 01/29/16  House: Read first time
• 02/01/16  House: Read second time
• 02/01/16  House: Committee substitute agreed to 16104108D-H1
• 02/01/16  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB589H1
• 02/02/16  House: Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N)
• 02/02/16  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (93-Y 4-N)
• 02/03/16  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/03/16  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/24/16  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (6-Y 3-N)
• 02/29/16  Senate: Reconsidered by Courts of Justice
• 03/08/16  Senate: Left in Courts of Justice