Virginia Senate Bill 571 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-03 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Visitation; petition of grandparent. Requires the court, in petitions for visitation filed by the grandparent of a child where either (i) the parent is the grandparent's child and is deceased, incarcerated, or incapacitated, or has had his parental rights terminated or (ii) the grandparent has an established relationship with the child and has provided a significant level of care for the child, to consider the following factors: (a) the historical relationship between the grandparent and child; (b) the motivation of the grandparent in seeking visitation; (c) the motivation of the living parent in denying visitation to the grandparent; (d) the quantity of time requested and the effect it will have on the child's daily activities; and (e) the benefits of maintaining a relationship with the extended family of the deceased parent.

Visitation; petition of grandparent for visitation of child.

Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant [R]

Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2020-02-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) (Y: 36 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 2-N) (Y: 12 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-02-24	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N)
2020-02-21	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2020-02-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-02-12	House	Read first time
2020-02-12	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-06	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 4-N)
2020-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB571S3
2020-02-05	Senate	Substitute by Senator Dunnavant agreed to 20107369D-S3
2020-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-05	Senate	Substitute by Senator Edwards withdrawn 20107576D-S2
2020-02-05	Senate	Substitute by Senator Morrissey withdrawn 20107538D-S1
2020-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-05	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20107369D-S3 (Dunnavant)
2020-02-04	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-04	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20107576D-S2 (Edwards)
2020-02-04	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20107538D-S1 (Morrissey)
2020-02-03	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-01-31	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-01-29	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 2-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102568D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB571
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB571+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB571S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB571S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB571S3+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0134+SB0571
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0257SB0571+SB0571
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0364SB0571+SB0571
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0802V0108+SB0571