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HB986

Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Todd Gilbert (R)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed Both Chambers. Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement.

Requires local boards of social services, prior to placement of a child in any foster home or children's residential facility, to provide to the foster home or residential facility all reasonably ascertainable background, medical, and psychological records of the child, including whether the child has been the subject of an investigation as the perpetrator of sexual abuse. The bill also requires that the background information provided to prospective adoptive parents by a child placing agency or local department of social services include whether the child has been the subject of an investigation as the perpetrator of sexual abuse. (Less)
  • Bill History

  • 01/09/2018 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102824D
  • 01/09/2018 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 01/16/2018 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
  • 01/16/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB986)
  • 01/31/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
  • 02/05/2018 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (18-Y 0-N)
  • 02/05/2018 - House: Committee substitute printed 18106499D-H1
  • 02/06/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB986H1)
  • 02/07/2018 - House: Read first time
  • 02/08/2018 - House: Read second time
  • 02/08/2018 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 18106499D-H1
  • 02/08/2018 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB986H1
  • 02/09/2018 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
  • 02/09/2018 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
  • 02/12/2018 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/12/2018 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 02/28/2018 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 0-N)
  • 02/28/2018 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 18107261D-S1
  • 03/01/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB986S1)
  • 03/02/2018 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Read third time
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Passed by temporarily
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 18107261D-S1
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB986S1
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
  • 03/06/2018 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 03/06/2018 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House 18107261D-S1 (1-Y 94-N)
  • 03/06/2018 - House: VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 94-N)
  • 03/07/2018 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
  • 03/07/2018 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
  • 03/08/2018 - House: House acceded to request
  • 03/08/2018 - House: Conferees appointed by House
  • 03/08/2018 - House: Delegates: Gilbert, Leftwich, Bourne
  • 03/08/2018 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 03/08/2018 - Senate: Senators: Obenshain, Reeves, Edwards
  • 03/09/2018 - Conference: Amended by conference committee
  • 03/10/2018 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 03/10/2018 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
  • 03/10/2018 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
  • 03/20/2018 - House: Enrolled
  • 03/20/2018 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB986ER)
  • 03/20/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB986ER)
  • 03/20/2018 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/22/2018 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/26/2018 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 26, 2018
  • 03/26/2018 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
  • 03/30/2018 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 694 (effective 7/1/18)
  • 03/30/2018 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694)

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