File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1093
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Baker, Senator Ruben (Montgomery County
Administration), Senator Collins (Baltimore County Administration) and
Senators Forehand, Kelley, Hoffman, Hogan, Roesser, Hollinger, Van
Hollen, Dorman, Teitelbaum, Boozer, Bromwell, Della, Stone, Sfikas,
McCabe, and Colburn
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Children in Out-of-Home Placements
Authorizing a court to find a child who is 24 months old or younger to
be abandoned if the natural parent has not contacted the child or the
child placement agency for 6 months, despite the opportunity to do so;
adding to the continuing or serious conditions or acts a court is
required to consider in determining whether it is in the best interest
of a child to terminate the natural parent's rights; providing that
reasonable efforts need not be made to reunify a child with the
natural parent or guardian under specified circumstances; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/11
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Roesser) Adopted
- 3/19
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Ruben) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Roesser) Rejected (20-27)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/23
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/9
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Baker, Green, and Colburn
House Action
- 3/24
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 4/1
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0)
- 4/5
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Montague, Baker R, Burns M
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Walter M. Baker, District 36
- Baltimore County Administration
- Senator F. Vernon Boozer, District 9
- Senator Thomas L. Bromwell, District 8
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 47
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADOPTION
- CHILD ABUSE
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- FOSTER CARE
- GUARDIANS
- HEARINGS
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- NOTICES
- PETITIONS
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- SOCIAL SERVICES -see also- WELFARE
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-812.1 ,
3-826.1
)
- Family Law
- (
5-303 ,
5-313 ,
5-322 ,
5-322 ,
5-408 ,
5-501 ,
5-525 ,
5-525.1 ,
5-539 ,
5-540 ,
5-541 ,
5-544 ,
5-545 ,
5-546 ,
5-547
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 323406/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 19, 1998 at:
10:27 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 693102/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 19, 1998 at:
10:33 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 728359/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 19, 1998 at:
10:27 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 531190/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 6, 1998 at:
4:19 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 19, 1998: Floor Amendment (Roesser) {693102/1 Rejected (20-27)
- March 23, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- House
- April 2, 1998: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
