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2017–2018 Regular Session

House Bill 57

An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in adoption, further providing for definitions, for hearing and for petition for involuntary termination, providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of parent or putative father unknown, further providing for consents necessary to adoption and repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on March 20, 2017. 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

12 co-sponsors

DOMINIC J. COSTA, Matthew D. Dowling, Kristin Phillips-Hill, DAVID R. MILLARD, THOMAS P. MURT, Craig T. Staats, KATHARINE M. WATSON, ANTHONY M. DELUCA, MARCY TOEPEL, David H. Zimmerman, NICHOLAS A. MICCARELLI III, Barry J. Jozwiak

Its course

January 25 to March 20, 2017, 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 action13 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 25 to Mar 1347 days

Children & YouthJan 25 to Feb 612 days

AppropriationsFeb 8 to Mar 1333 days

In the SenateMar 13 to Mar 20 · stopped7 days

JudiciaryMar 20 to Mar 20 · stopped0 days

Votes

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

  • House of Representatives, third reading180–5

    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 Jan 25 – Mar 13

  1. Jan 25Sent 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, 180 to 5

In the Senate Mar 20

  1. Mar 20Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to JUDICIARY
All 13 actions, as published
  1. Jan 25Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH, Jan. 25, 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. Feb 8(Remarks see House Journal Page 141-143), Feb. 8, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  9. Mar 13Re-reported as committed, March 13, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  10. Mar 13Third consideration and final passage, March 13, 2017 (180-5) [House]House of Representatives
  11. Mar 13(Remarks see House Journal Page 224), March 13, 2017 [House]House of Representatives
  12. Mar 20In the Senate [Senate]Senate
  13. Mar 20Referred to JUDICIARY, March 20, 2017 [Senate]Senate