Virginia House Bill 2273 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-4)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Rights of blind parents. Provides that a blind parent's blindness, as defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis of the denial or restriction of such parent's custody or visitation rights. The bill requires a party who alleges that a parent's blindness should be a factor to be considered to not be in the best interests of the child, or should otherwise be a reason to deny or restrict such a parent's custody or visitation rights, to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the child's best interests would not be met or served due to such parent's blindness. The bill allows a blind parent to demonstrate how supportive parenting services would appropriately address any threats to the child's best interests and further allows that such services be ordered by the court. The bill requires a court to make written findings where the court denies or restricts custody or visitation of a blind parent or where supportive parenting services are not ordered. The same requirements apply to the denial of approval of a blind prospective foster parent, or removal of a child from a blind foster parent's home, and to the denial of a final order of adoption wherein the prospective adoptive parent is blind.

Blind parents; custody or visitation rights.

Del. Dave LaRock [R]	Del. Richard Anderson [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Christopher Collins [R]
Del. Mark Dudenhefer [R]	Del. Matt Fariss [R]	Del. Hyland Fowler [R]	Del. Daun Hester [D]
Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. William Howell [R]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Scott Lingamfelter [R]
Del. Robert Marshall [R]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2017-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2017-01-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-11	House	Presented and ordered printed 17102217D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	2	1200.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	901.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2273
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2273+hil