Legislation - HB0048

Title: Family Law - Children in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights (Right to Fight Act)
Sponsored by: Delegate Toles
Status: In the House - First Reading Judiciary
Analysis

Synopsis

Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a parent or guardian has involuntarily lost parental rights to a sibling of the child; and repealing the authorization for a juvenile court to waive a local department's obligation to provide certain services if a parent has involuntarily lost certain parental rights.

Committees

Original:: Judiciary

Details

Introduced in a prior session as: HB0944 Session: 2025 Regular Session

Bill File Type: Pre-Filed

Effective Date(s): October 1, 2026

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 10/28/2025 Legislative Date 10/28/2025 Action Pre-filed Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 1/14/2026 Legislative Date 1/14/2026 Action First Reading Judiciary Proceedings
Chamber Calendar Date Legislative Date Action Text - First - Family Law - Children in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights (Right to Fight Act) Proceedings

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action
House	10/28/2025	10/28/2025	Pre-filed
House	1/14/2026	1/14/2026	First Reading Judiciary
			Text - First - Family Law - Children in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights (Right to Fight Act)

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