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2020 SESSION
HB 371 Adoption by stepparent; circuit court shall consider results of background check.
Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Adoption by stepparent; background check. Repeals the July 1, 2020, sunset on provisions that require a circuit court, when determining whether an investigation by the director of the local department of social services should be required before a final order is entered to approve as an adoptive parent the spouse of a child's birth or adoptive parent, to consider the results of a national criminal history background check conducted on the prospective adoptive parent.
FULL TEXT
- 01/02/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102504D pdf | impact statement
- 01/21/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106243D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/02/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102504D
- 01/02/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/21/20 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106243D-H1
- 01/23/20 House: Read first time
- 01/24/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/27/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/28/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/29/20 House: Read second time
- 01/29/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20106243D-H1
- 01/29/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB371H1
- 01/30/20 House: Read third time and defeated by House (45-Y 52-N)
- 01/30/20 House: VOTE: DEFEATED (45-Y 52-N)