2025 bills / H.B. 413
H.B. 413 Child Custody Proceedings Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill bars police officers and child welfare caseworkers from taking certain child custody actions based on specified actions of a child's parent. It also bars courts from holding a parent's specified actions against that parent in cases deciding custody or parent-time for a minor child.
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Official description
- defines terms
- provides that a peace officer or child welfare caseworker may not take specific actions related to the custody of a child based on certain actions of the child's parent
- provides that in a proceeding where custody and parent-time of a minor child are at issue, the court may not apply a negative inference against a parent based on certain actions of the parent
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 413 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 413 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
- 7 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 56 yes, 11 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 2 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how