Indiana Senate Bill 218 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-16 - Senator Crane added as coauthor
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Procedures to terminate parental rights. Provides that a court may find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required if the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is a child in need of services has failed to maintain consistent and meaningful contact with the child over at least the most recent 12 months. Adds to the list of allegations that satisfy the requirements for a petition for termination of parental rights an allegation that: (1) the parent has failed to

Procedures to terminate parental rights. Provides that a court may find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required if the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is a child in need of services has failed to maintain consistent and meaningful contact with the child over at least the most recent 12 months. Adds to the list of allegations that satisfy the requirements for a petition for termination of parental rights an allegation that: (1) the parent has failed to

Sen. Erin Houchin [R]	Sen. Jon Ford [R]	Sen. Andy Zay [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]
Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]	Sen. John Crane [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-16	Senate	Senator Crane added as coauthor
2018-01-09	Senate	Senator Brown L added as coauthor
2018-01-04	Senate	Senators Head and Holdman added as coauthors
2018-01-04	Senate	Senator Zay added as third author
2018-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2018-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senators Houchin and Ford

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/218/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/b/d/3/dbd3927a/SB0218.01.INTR.pdf