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SB 1139 Post-adoption contact & communication agreements; authority to enter into agreements.
Introduced by: Barbara A. Favola | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Post-adoption contact and communication agreements. Provides that a local board of social services or child welfare agency required to file a petition for a permanency planning hearing may inform the birth parents and shall inform the adoptive parents that they may enter into enter into a post-adoption contact and communication agreement. The bill further provides that such local board of social services or child welfare agency shall inform the child if he is 14 years of age or older that he may consent to such an agreement. This bill is identical to HB 1728.
FULL TEXT
- 12/30/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103550D pdf | impact statement
- 01/21/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105184D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1139ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/30/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103550D
- 12/30/18 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/21/19 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105184D-S1
- 01/22/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/19 Senate: Read second time
- 01/23/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/23/19 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19105184D-S1
- 01/23/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1139S1
- 01/24/19 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/29/19 House: Read first time
- 01/29/19 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/06/19 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/19 House: Read second time
- 02/11/19 House: Read third time
- 02/11/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/19 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/12/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1139ER)
- 02/12/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/13/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/14/19 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
- 02/14/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
- 02/19/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 65 (effective 7/1/19)
- 02/19/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065)