Custody and visitation orders; use of term parenting time. [HB-1456]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Custody and visitation orders; parenting time. Provides that the court, in its discretion and as to a parent, may use the phrase "parenting time" to be synonymous with the term "visitation" in a custody or visitation order.
HB-1456: Custody and visitation orders; use of term parenting time.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0046) on 02/17/2017
HB-368: Relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general election for state and county officers to vote in the preceding primary elections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Donna Howard
Read First Time on 02/16/2017
You have voted HB-368: Relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general election for state and county officers to vote in the preceding primary elections..
Social Services, Department of; survey for children aging out of foster care. [HB-1451]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Social Security ]
Department of Social Services; survey for children aging out of foster care. Directs the Department of Social Services, in coordination with the Commission on Youth, to develop a process and standardized survey to gather feedback from children aging out of foster care.
HB-1451: Social Services, Department of; survey for children aging out of foster care.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0187) on 02/23/2017
SB-196: Relating to a notification requirement if a public school, including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse, school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all instructional hours.
Sponsored by: Sen. Eddie Lucio
Vetoed By The Governor on 06/15/2017
You have voted SB-196: Relating to a notification requirement if a public school, including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse, school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all instructional hours..
Family life education; certain curricula and standards of learning. [SB-828]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Family life education; child sexual abuse. Requires the Board of Education to include in its standards of learning for family life education standards for age-appropriate instruction in the prevention, recognition, and awareness of child abduction, child abuse, child sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse. The bill also requires such standards to be taught in grades K through 12.
SB-828: Family life education; certain curricula and standards of learning.
Sponsored by: Sen. Janet Howell
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (8-y 6-n) on 01/26/2017
Parenting time; replaces "visitation" in statutory language. [HB-271]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Parenting time. Replaces "visitation" with "parenting time" in statutory language relating to the custody and visitation of minor children. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2017.
HB-271: Parenting time; replaces "visitation" in statutory language.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/01/2016
Adoption; leave benefit. [SB-271]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Adoption leave benefit. Creates a new classification of paid leave for a state employee who adopts an infant. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity leave. The Department of Human Resource Management is directed to develop guidelines and policies for implementing the adoption leave benefit.
SB-271: Adoption; leave benefit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Left In Appropriations on 12/01/2016
Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; negligence resulting in death or injury. [SB-419]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; negligence resulting in death of or injury to a child; penalty. Provides that in any case in which a person operates or engages in the conduct of a child welfare agency without first obtaining a license, and a child under the care or supervision of such child welfare agency suffers death or serious bodily injury as a result of the child care provider's negligent operation of such child welfare agency, such person is guilty of a Class 4 felony.
SB-419: Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; negligence resulting in death or injury.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Vogel
Left In Finance on 12/02/2016