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HB 721 Post-adoption contact and communication agreements; involuntary termination of parental rights.
Introduced by: David A. Reid | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Post-adoption contact and communication agreements; involuntary termination of parental rights. Provides that a child's birth parent or parents for whom parental rights were involuntarily terminated may enter into a post-adoption contact and communication agreement with the child's pre-adoptive parent or parents.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101572D pdf | impact statement
- 02/20/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB721ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/03/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101572D
- 01/06/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/22/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/20 House: Read first time
- 01/30/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/31/20 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/20 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/12/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/14/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/20 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/20 House: Enrolled
- 02/20/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB721ER)
- 02/20/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/25/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2020
- 02/25/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 3, 2020
- 03/03/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 98 (effective 7/1/20)
- 03/03/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098)