Bill Text: VA HB1642 | 2013 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Parental rights; fundamental right to make decisions concerning upbringing, etc., of their child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) [HB1642 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-HB1642-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1642 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee for Courts of Justice on February 1, 2013) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Pogge) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 1-240.1, relating to rights of parents.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 1-240.1 as follows:

§1-240.1. Rights of parents.

A parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of the parent's child.

2. That the provisions of this act are declarative of existing law.