File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 382
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Taylor, Dewberry, Hurson, Dembrow, B. Hughes,
Brinkley, Pitkin, Doory, Hixson, Kagan, Howard, Cadden, Petzold,
Grosfeld, DeCarlo, Finifter, Barve, Frank, Franchot, Minnick, Dypski,
Leopold, Genn, Conroy, Comeau, Morhaim, Valderrama, Kopp, Billings,
Edwards, Love, Owings, Flanagan, Patterson, Harkins, Healey, Preis,
Kittleman, Getty, McHale, Menes, E. Burns, Faulkner, Ciliberti,
Hubbard, Cryor, and Baldwin
- Entitled:
-
Child Protection Act of 1998
Providing that the safety and health of children are paramount
considerations in certain proceedings relating to adoption and
guardianship; altering the time period within which a permanent
placement for a child should be effectuated; and establishing a
rebuttable presumption in termination of parental rights proceedings
that the future safety of a child will be at risk if the natural
parent has been convicted of a crime of violence against specified
individuals.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/28
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Leon G. Billings, District 18
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Barrie S. Ciliberti, District 39
- Delegate Michael G. Comeau, District 35A
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Jean B. Cryor, District 15
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
- Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
- Delegate Robert L. Flanagan, District 14B
- Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
- Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
- Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
- Delegate Joseph M. Getty, District 5
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
- Delegate Robert H. Kittleman, District 14B
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate John R. Leopold, District 31
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 47A
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 7
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
- Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADOPTION
- CHILD ABUSE
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -see also- CHILD ABUSE
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- GUARDIANS
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-826.1
)
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
643B
)
- Family Law
- (
5-303 ,
5-313
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
