CHAPTER NUMBER: 596 
File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 711  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Healey and E. Burns (Governor's Commission on Adoption)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Permanency for Children in Out-of-Home Placements
 
Establishing specified hearings in the juvenile court for children
adjudicated to be in need of assistance in order to review the
implementation of a permanency placement plan for children committed
after a disposition is made; requiring the juvenile court to make
specific determinations in the review hearings; etc.
House Action
- 2/8
 - First Reading Judiciary
 -      Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/18
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/19
 - Third Reading Passed (133-2)
 - 4/1
 - Returned Passed
 - 5/23
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 596
 
Senate Action
- 3/20
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 - 4/3
 - Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
 - 4/2
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/3
 - Third Reading Passed (44-0)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
 - Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - ADOPTION
 - CIRCUIT COURTS
 - COURTS - GENERAL
 - FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION, DIVORCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
 - FOSTER CARE
 - HEARINGS
 - JURISDICTION
 - JUVENILE CAUSES
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY, JUVENILE CAUSES, YOUTH
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Courts and Judicial Proceedings
 - (
 3-804 ,
 3-826.1 
)
 -   Family Law
 - (
 1-201 ,
 1-201 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 601574/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1996     at: 16:38
 Status: Adopted