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2022 SESSION
HB 869 Adoption; court to refer case to child-placing agency.
Introduced by: Emily M. Brewer | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Adoption. Allows a circuit court, upon consideration of a petition for adoption, to immediately enter an interlocutory order referring the case to a child-placing agency to conduct a visitation instead of entering an order of reference referring the case to a child-placing agency for investigation and makes other amendments to accommodate for and bolster this change. The bill allows petitions for adoption submitted by the persons listed as the child's parents on his birth certificate to be filed and granted under the provisions governing stepparent adoptions. The bill states that a putative father's registration with the Virginia Birth Father Registry is untimely regarding a child whose adoption has been finalized 180 days or more prior to such registration and in certain other instances set forth in the bill and allows written notice of an adoption plan to be sent to a putative father by express mail with proof of delivery in addition to delivery by personal service or certified mailing as in current law.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104018D pdf | impact statement
- 02/07/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22105788D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB869ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/11/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) 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
- 01/12/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104018D
- 01/12/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/28/22 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/02/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22105788D-H1
- 02/09/22 House: Read first time
- 02/10/22 House: Read second time
- 02/10/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22105788D-H1
- 02/10/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB869H1
- 02/11/22 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/23/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/22 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/22 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/28/22 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/28/22 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/22 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/22 House: VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/22 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB869ER)
- 03/08/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/22/22 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 03/22/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/11/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377)