VA SB98 | 2010 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-01-18 - Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Preliminary removal order hearings. Provides that a court shall not accept any waiver by a parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis of a child alleged to have been abused or neglected of his right to participate in a full evidentiary hearing or an adjudicatory hearing unless the court first ascertains, by oral examination, that such waiver is voluntary and intelligently made. If the court makes such ascertainment, it shall provide such parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person with a statement to be executed by him in court and under oath to document his waiver. The statement shall be in a form designed and provided by the Supreme Court.

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Title

Preliminary removal order hearings; court not to accept waiver by parent unless ascertain voluntary.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2010-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2010-01-18 Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
2010-01-12 Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2010-01-06 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-06 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10101407D

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
161252(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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