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2024 SESSION

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HB 783 Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption.

Introduced by: Charniele L. Herring | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption; discharge of newborn infant. Authorizes a hospital to release a child to his prospective adoptive parents when the birth parent has executed a health care power of attorney. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill incorporates HB 112.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102449D  pdf | impact statement
• 01/26/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24105836D-H1  pdf | impact statement
• 02/27/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB783ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 03/14/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
• Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• Senate amendments
• Senate amendments engrossed

HISTORY

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102449D
• 01/09/24  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/23/24  House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
• 01/24/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24105836D-H1
• 01/26/24  House: Incorporates HB112 (Sullivan)
• 01/26/24  House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
• 01/30/24  House: Read first time
• 01/31/24  House: Read second time
• 01/31/24  House: Committee substitute agreed to 24105836D-H1
• 01/31/24  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB783H1
• 02/01/24  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
• 02/01/24  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 02/02/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/02/24  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/14/24  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/16/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/19/24  Senate: Read third time
• 02/19/24  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
• 02/19/24  Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
• 02/19/24  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 02/19/24  Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/21/24  House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
• 02/21/24  House: VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
• 02/27/24  House: Enrolled
• 02/27/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB783ER)
• 02/27/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/01/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/11/24  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
• 03/11/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 03/14/24  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 90 (effective 7/1/24)
• 03/14/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090)