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Referred Bills (105)
Rights reserved to a parent or guardian of a child.
The age for marriage and eliminating spousal exceptions for certain sex crimes against children.
Notification of automatic revocation of certain revocable transfers from former spouse upon divorce, annulment, or legal separation.
Funding for supplemental payments to hospitals with avoidable patient days under the Medical Assistance program, for enhanced nursing home reimbursement rates under the Medical Assistance program for residents with bariatric and extensive wound care needs, and for the complex patient pilot program. (FE)
Supplemental payments to hospitals with avoidable patient days and an enhanced rate to nursing homes for bariatric and extensive wound care under the Medical Assistance program. (FE)
Consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives, allocation of nursing beds for patients with certain complex needs, and a complex patient pilot program. (FE)
Electronic and remote witnessing and notarization of estate planning documents.
Eliminating constitutional restrictions on marriage (first consideration).
Trust administration, the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act, the Uniform Trust Decanting Act, disclosure of certain digital property, and the classification of certain digital property as individual property for purposes of determining marital property. (FE)
Surrogate decision-making.
Preadoption training formats. (FE)
Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment.
A disclaimer of parental rights and payments allowed in connection with an adoption.
Rules defining unprofessional conduct by marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and social workers and suspension of a portion of a rule of the Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board.
Procedures for de novo review in actions affecting the family.
Stipulated orders before judgment in actions for divorce, annulment, or legal separation.
Rescission of adoption by a stepparent and restoration of parental rights.
Exclusion of certain military allowances in determining gross income for purposes of child support.
Legal custody and physical placement factors for a child of a service member.
Allowing a parent to change a minor child's name when the other parent is convicted of certain homicide or sex offenses.
Termination of parental rights by motion in CHIPS proceeding. (FE)
Postadoption contact agreements.
Various changes to the safe haven law. (FE)
Terminating parental rights based on the parent's incarceration. (FE)
The required annual exchange of financial information in an order for family support, child support, or maintenance.
Grounds for finding a child in need of protection or services or for terminating parental rights.
Elimination of a jury trial in a proceeding under the Children's Code. (FE)
Duty to participate in an appeal of an order terminating parental rights. (FE)
Allowing a court commissioner to address stipulated final legal separation hearings.
Adopting gender-neutral terminology and incorporating gender-neutral marriage and parentage rights. (FE)
The appointment of a guardian ad litem in a proceeding to grant reasonable visitation rights to a nonparent. (FE)
Mandatory parenting classes.
Legal custody and physical placement factors for a child of a service member.
Pre-adoption training formats. (FE)
Modifications to legal custody or physical placement contingent upon a future event.
Proposed parenting plans in certain actions affecting the family.
Calculating the child support obligation and elimination of family support.
Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment.
Guardian training requirements.
Factors relating to the physical placement of a child.
Justices or judges authorized to officiate a marriage.
Marriage solemnization requirements and marriage document requirements, issuance, and validity. (FE)
Guardian training requirements and making an appropriation. (FE)
The appointment of a guardian ad litem in a proceeding to grant reasonable visitation rights to a nonparent. (FE)
Age for marriage.
Legal custody and physical placement factors for a child of a service member.
The establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a grandparent, grandchild, or sibling and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that are required to allow an employee to take family or medical leave; creating an individual income tax deduction for certain family or medical leave insurance benefits; allowing a local government to adopt ordinances requiring employers to provide leave benefits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Searching for a biological sibling who has been adopted, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Access by an adult adoptee to report of adoption. (FE)
Postadoption contact agreements.
Termination of parental rights if a child has been placed outside the home for 15 of the last 22 months. (FE)
Placement of a child with a relative under the Children's Code or the Juvenile Justice Code.
Grounds for finding a child in need of protection or services or for terminating parental rights, right to a jury trial in a termination of parental rights proceeding, and permanency plan reviews. (FE)
The procedure in a CHIPS or JIPS proceeding for an involuntary termination of parental rights. (FE)
Providing permanency plan and comments to foster parents and foster children over the age of 12 in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE)
The rights of a foster parent or other physical custodian of a child on removal of the child from the person's home. (FE)
Marriage license application requirements, issuance, and validity.
Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment.
Marriage between persons of the same sex and extending parentage rights to married couples of the same sex. (FE)
Mandatory parenting classes.
Presumption and conclusive determination of paternity on the basis of genetic test results and orders that may be granted on the basis of genetic test results. (FE)
Calculating the child support obligation. (FE)
The involvement and cooperation of both parents in a physical placement schedule.
Modifications to legal custody or physical placement contingent upon a future event.
Eliminating administrative rule limitation on recovery of birth costs. (FE)
Proposed parenting plans in certain actions affecting the family.
Exclusion of certain military allowances in determining gross income for purposes of child support.
Reduction of child support payments during incarceration.
Factors relating to the physical placement of a child.
A Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act.
Guardianships of children. (FE)
Eligibility for adoption assistance. (FE)
Supported decision-making agreements. (FE)
Venue requirements for domestic abuse, child abuse, and harassment cases.
Battery of an officer of the court and providing a criminal penalty.
The Court Appointed Special Advocates grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)
The showing of a substantial likelihood that a parent will not meet the conditions established for the safe return of the child to the home in a termination of parental rights proceeding.
The certificate of title for a vehicle that is transferred to a spouse upon the death of the owner. (FE)
Mandatory parenting classes.
Marriage license application requirements, issuance, and validity.
Persons authorized to officiate a marriage.
Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment.
The Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act and providing a criminal penalty.
The establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a grandparent, grandchild, or sibling and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that are required to permit an employee to take family or medical leave; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Persons authorized to officiate at a marriage.
The right of a parent to have counsel in a proceeding for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the power of the juvenile court to appoint counsel in such a proceeding; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE)
Persons authorized to officiate at a marriage.
Notice to an alleged father's parents and siblings of a juvenile court proceeding concerning a child in need of protection or services. (FE)
Marriage between persons of the same sex and extending parentage rights to married couples of the same sex. (FE)
The disclaimer of parental rights by a birth parent and his or her appearance in court.
The establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a grandparent, grandchild, or sibling and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that are required to permit an employee to take family or medical leave; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
Recodification of the child abuse and neglect reporting law; making probation agents, parole agents, and certain employees, contractors, and volunteers of schools and institutions of higher education mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect; training in child abuse and neglect identification, laws, and procedures and in human trafficking identification for certain employees, contractors, and volunteers of schools; eliminating an exception to the child abuse reporting requirement for providers of certain health care services when the suspected or threatened abuse consists of sexual intercourse or contact with a child; definitions of physical injury and neglect for purposes of mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect; and granting rule-making authority.
The Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act.
Appeals of denials of kinship care payments based on arrest or conviction record. (FE)
Appeals of denials of kinship care payments based on arrest or conviction record. (FE)
The restoration of information from an original birth certificate after adoption. (FE)
Advertising related to adoption or other permanent physical placements of a child, delegation of parental power regarding the care and custody of a child for more than one year, unauthorized interstate placements of children, requesting a study of adoption disruption and dissolution, and providing penalties. (FE)
Termination of maintenance upon the payee's or payer's death and notices relating to maintenance.
Waiver of a parent's right to counsel in a contested adoption or an involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding for failure to personally appear as ordered by the juvenile court.
A presumption that equalizing physical placement to the highest degree is in the child's best interest and child support changes, including prohibiting basing support on income over $150,000 per year, deducting the amount of health insurance premiums from the support amount, prohibiting increasing support above the standard amount, prohibiting orders that set minimum future support amounts, and requiring a support revision if there has been a substantial change in circumstances. (FE)
Relinquishing custody of a newborn child. (FE)
A presumption that equalizing physical placement to the highest degree is in the child's best interest.
The right of a parent to have counsel in a proceeding for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the power of the juvenile court to appoint counsel in such a proceeding; and elimination of the right to a jury trial in such a proceeding or in a proceeding for termination of parental rights; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE)
Children in need of protection or services jurisdiction over, and grounds for involuntary termination of parental rights to, a child under 3 years of age whose parent had an involuntary termination of parental rights within 3 years prior to the child's birth; reasonable efforts by an agency to return a child safely home when the child has been adjudged to be in need of protection or services; requirements for further participation in an action to terminate parental rights by a man alleged to be the child's father; revising certain grounds for an involuntary termination of parental rights and certain notice exceptions for an involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding; waiver of counsel for a parent in an involuntary termination of parental rights or a contested adoption proceeding; and requiring a parent's signature on a petition for postdispositional relief or a notice of appeal of a termination of parental rights order or a child in need of protection or services or paternity adjudication. (FE)
Posttermination of parental rights contact between a child and a birth relative of the child; disclosure of the name and address of an out-of-home placement of a child; sharing of home study reports with another agency; elimination of home studies for certain proposed adoptive parents; disclosure of the name and last-known address of a proposed adoptive parent of a child to an agency that is determining the availability of an adoptive placement for a sibling of the child; providing full faith and credit to a tribal court proceeding for a suspension of parental rights or an adoption under tribal law or custom; and jurisdiction over and venue for an adoption petition. (FE)