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2019–2020 Regular Session

Senate Bill 120

An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in adoption, further providing for definitions, for hearing, for grounds for involuntary termination and for petition for involuntary termination, providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of birth 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 House of Representatives's Judiciary Committee on October 21, 2020. The 2019–2020 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 Senate

5 co-sponsors

Jay Costa, Mike Folmer, Scott Martin, Kim L. Ward, Donald C. White

Its course

January 28, 2019 to October 21, 2020, 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 action9 actions on 6 days

In the SenateJan 28 to Oct 20631 days

JudiciaryJan 28 to Sep 22603 days

AppropriationsOct 6 to Oct 1913 days

In the House of RepresentativesOct 20 to Oct 21 · stopped1 day

JudiciaryOct 21 to Oct 21 · stopped0 days

Votes

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

  • Senate, third reading48–0

    Passed · Oct 20, 2020

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 Senate Jan 28 – Oct 20, 2020

  1. Jan 28Sent to JUDICIARY
  2. Sep 22, 2020JUDICIARY recommended it
  3. Oct 6, 2020Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Oct 19, 2020APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Oct 20, 2020Passed the Senate, 48 to 0

In the House of Representatives Oct 21, 2020

  1. Oct 21, 2020Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to JUDICIARY
All 9 actions, as published
  1. Jan 28Referred to JUDICIARY, Jan. 28, 2019 [Senate]Senate
  2. Sep 22, 2020Reported as committed, Sept. 22, 2020 [Senate]Senate
  3. Sep 22, 2020First consideration, Sept. 22, 2020 [Senate]Senate
  4. Oct 6, 2020Second consideration, Oct. 6, 2020 [Senate]Senate
  5. Oct 6, 2020Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Oct. 6, 2020 [Senate]Senate
  6. Oct 19, 2020Re-reported as committed, Oct. 19, 2020 [Senate]Senate
  7. Oct 20, 2020Third consideration and final passage, Oct. 20, 2020 (48-0) [Senate]Senate
  8. Oct 21, 2020In the House [House]House of Representatives
  9. Oct 21, 2020Referred to JUDICIARY, Oct. 21, 2020 [House]House of Representatives