Virginia House Bill 1604 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on February 23 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Foster care; reasonable efforts to prevent removal of child. Allows a local board of social services to take a child into immediate custody pursuant to an emergency removal order in cases in which the child is alleged to have been abused or neglected and allows a court to issue certain orders in such cases, without requiring that reasonable efforts be made to prevent removal of the child from his home if (i) the parental residual rights of the child's parent over a sibling were involuntarily terminated; (ii) the parent was convicted of murder or voluntary manslaughter, or a felony attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit any such offense, if the victim was a child of or resided with the parent or was the other parent of the child; (iii) the parent was convicted of felony assault resulting in serious bodily injury or felony bodily wounding resulting in serious bodily injury or felony sexual assault, if the victim was a child of or resided with the parent; or (iv) on the basis of clear and convincing evidence, the parent has subjected any child to aggravated circumstances or abandoned a child under circumstances that would justify the termination of residual parental rights. The bill provides that, in each permanency planning hearing and in any hearing regarding the transition of the child from foster care to independent living, the court shall consult with the child, unless the court finds that such consultation is not in the best interests of the child. The bill makes other changes related to foster care to comply with federal requirements.

Foster care; definitions, reasonable efforts to prevent removal of child.

Del. Richard Bell [R]

2017-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-26 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-20 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-16 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)
2017-02-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-02-17		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
2017-02-17	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
2017-02-17	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-16	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-16	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1604ER)
2017-02-16	House	Enrolled
2017-02-14	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-14	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-13	Senate	Passed by for the day
2017-02-13	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-08	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2017-01-27	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-27	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2017-01-26	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2017-01-26	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2017-01-25	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1604H1
2017-01-25	House	Committee substitute agreed to 17104379D-H1
2017-01-25	House	Read second time
2017-01-24	House	Read first time
2017-01-20	House	Committee substitute printed 17104379D-H1
2017-01-20	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
2017-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
2017-01-13	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2017-01-03	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-03	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101355D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	228	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	251	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	252	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	278.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	278.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	281	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	282.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	283	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	910.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1604
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1604+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1604H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1604ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0190+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H0802V0009+HB1604
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H08V0040+HB1604
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV1608+HB1604
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03V0239+HB1604
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0464HB1604+HB1604
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0508HB1604+HB1604