Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; jurisdiction, specific findings of fact.
Summary
Grants the juvenile and domestic relations district courts jurisdiction to make specific findings of fact required by state or federal law to enable a child to apply for or receive a state or federal benefit. This bill is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Jan 14, 2019
Signed Mar 18, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 22, 2019
How they voted
35–2
Passed
Total votes 37
Feb 22, 2019
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican20
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
8
Committee
8
Mar 18, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 412 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 22, 2019
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by temporarily
upper
Feb 22, 2019
Legislature · Passed
Amended by conference committee
legislature
Feb 20, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate requested conference committee
upper
Feb 18, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2679S1
upper
Feb 18, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19107092D-S1
upper
Feb 1, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
Jan 31, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N)
lower
Jan 17, 2019
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 14, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 14, 2019
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 19103631D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Marcus Simon
DDemocratic
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