2025 bills / H.B. 29
H.B. 29 Child Visitation Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes the legal standard a court must meet before it can award custody or visitation of a child to someone who is not a parent. It also lets a court, while deciding such a petition, make findings about a parent's ability to have primary physical custody and about any claim of parental abuse or neglect, and clarifies the time period those findings cover.
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Official description
- modifies a standard required to support an award of non-parental custody or visitation
- clarifies that a court that has received a petition seeking non-parent custody or visitation may, as part of the adjudication of the petition, make findings relating to a parent's ability to exercise primary physical custody, and make findings relating to a claim of parental abuse or neglect of a minor child
- clarifies the time period that is applicable to a court's findings
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 29 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 29 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Jan 22, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 18 yes, 0 no, 11 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how