CHAPTER NUMBER: 552
File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 74
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Preis
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Child Placement Agency - Guardianship
Authorizing a child placement agency to consent to joint guardianship,
custody, or other long-term placement under specified circumstances;
authorizing a court to award joint guardianship, custody, or other
long-term placement under specified circumstances; providing that if
joint guardianship is awarded to a caregiver, the child placement
agency shall retain guardianship with the right to consent to adoption
or long-term care short of adoption; defining a certain term; etc.
House Action
- 2/23
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/26
- Hearing 3/12 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 (139-0)
- 4/2
- Returned Passed
- 5/14
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 552
Senate Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/5
- Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 4/3
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/4
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADOPTION
- COURTS - GENERAL
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION, DIVORCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- GUARDIANS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Family Law
- (
5-301 ,
5-301 ,
5-301 ,
5-317 ,
5-317 ,
5-319 ,
5-319
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 311876/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1996 at: 16:42
Status: Adopted