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2017–2018 Regular Session

House Bill 289

An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report and for report of intention to adopt, repealing provisions relating to report of intermediary and exhibits, further providing for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption and for exhibits, providing for permissible reimbursement of expenses and further providing for time of entry of decree of adoption.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate on October 1, 2018. The 2017–2018 session has ended.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

32 co-sponsors

VANESSA L. LOWERY BROWN, THOMAS R. CALTAGIRONE, PAMELA A. DeLISSIO, Frank A. Farry, MATTHEW M. GABLER, Kevin Haggerty, SUSAN C. HELM, JOHN A. LAWRENCE, Harry Lewis Jr., RYAN E. MACKENZIE, Joanna E. McClinton, CARL WALKER METZGAR, DAN MOUL, THOMAS P. MURT, TINA PICKETT, KATHY L. RAPP, Mark Rozzi, TODD STEPHENS, Judy Ward, KATHARINE M. WATSON, David H. Zimmerman, ED NEILSON, Francis X. Ryan, WILLIAM C. KORTZ II, BRYAN E. BARBIN, Kristin Phillips-Hill, MARK M. GILLEN, DOYLE M. HEFFLEY, NICHOLAS A. MICCARELLI III, TINA M. DAVIS, Eric R. Nelson, Barry J. Jozwiak

Its course

February 2, 2017 to October 1, 2018, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action16 actions on 9 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 2 to Mar 1339 days

Children & YouthFeb 2 to Feb 64 days

AppropriationsFeb 8 to Mar 1333 days

In the SenateMar 13 to Oct 1 · stopped567 days

JudiciaryMar 20 to Mar 27372 days

AppropriationsApr 16 to Oct 1168 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • House of Representatives, third reading187–0

    Passed · Mar 13

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 2 – Mar 13

  1. Feb 2Sent to CHILDREN AND YOUTH
  2. Feb 6CHILDREN AND YOUTH recommended it
  3. Feb 8Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Mar 13APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Passed the House of Representatives, 187 to 0

In the Senate Mar 20 – Oct 1, 2018

  1. Mar 20Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to JUDICIARY
  3. Mar 27, 2018JUDICIARY recommended it
  4. Apr 16, 2018Read a second time
  5. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  6. Oct 1, 2018APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
All 16 actions, as published
  1. Feb 2Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH, Feb. 2, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  2. Feb 6Reported as committed, Feb. 6, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  3. Feb 6First consideration, Feb. 6, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  4. Feb 6Laid on the table, Feb. 6, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  5. Feb 7Removed from table, Feb. 7, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  6. Feb 8Second consideration, Feb. 8, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  7. Feb 8Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Feb. 8, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  8. Mar 13Re-reported as committed, March 13, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  9. Mar 13Third consideration and final passage, March 13, 2017 (187-0) [House]House of Representatives
  10. Mar 20In the Senate [Senate]Senate
  11. Mar 20Referred to JUDICIARY, March 20, 2017 [Senate]Senate
  12. Mar 27, 2018Reported as committed, March 27, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  13. Mar 27, 2018First consideration, March 27, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  14. Apr 16, 2018Second consideration, April 16, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  15. Apr 16, 2018Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, April 16, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  16. Oct 1, 2018Re-reported as committed, Oct. 1, 2018 [Senate]Senate