CHAPTER NUMBER: 419
File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 249
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Dumais, Anderson, Barkley, Gutierrez, Lee, McComas,
Montgomery, Petzold, and Simmons
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Grounds for Absolute Divorce
Adding cruelty of treatment toward a minor child of the complaining
party and excessively vicious conduct toward the minor child of a
complaining party as grounds for an absolute divorce; and providing
that recrimination is not a bar to obtaining a divorce on any of the
specified absolute divorce grounds; etc.
House Action
- 2/3
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/22
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/21
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/22
- Third Reading Passed (115-18)
- 3/31
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Simmons, Quinter, and O'Donnell
- 4/2
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (105-29)
- 4/4
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/22
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 419
Senate Action
- 3/23
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (31-15)
- 4/3
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Garagiola, Frosh, and Forehand
- 4/4
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (32-14)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kathleen M. Dumais, District 15
- Delegate Curt Anderson, District 43
- Delegate Charles E. Barkley, District 39
- Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
- Delegate Susan C. Lee, District 16
- Delegate Susan K. McComas, District 35B
- Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
- Delegate Carol S. Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Luiz Simmons, District 17
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHILD ABUSE
- DIVORCE -see also- ANNULMENT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -see also- CHILD ABUSE
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; ANNULMENT; DIVORCE; etc
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; YOUTH
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
7-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 392115/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 22, 2003 at:
10:44 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 768378/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 2, 2003 at:
10:47 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents::
- Report Number: 333821/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 7, 2003 at:
Noon Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 613925/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 7, 2003 at:
Noon Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 22, 2003: Third Reading Passed (115-18)
- April 2, 2003: Third Reading Passed (105-29)
- Senate
- April 1, 2003: Third Reading Passed (31-15)
- April 4, 2003: Third Reading Passed (32-14)