00RS SB52

SB52

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SB 52 (BR 451) - B. Bailey

     AN ACT relating to parents who have abandoned a child.
     Create a new section of KRS Chapter 391 to prohibit a parent who has abandoned care and maintenance of a child from having right to intestate succession and from having right to administer the estate of the child unless the parent has resumed the care for 1 year prior to the death of the child or has been deprived of custody of the child under a support order and has complied with support obligations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to prohibit a parent who has abandoned care and maintenance of a child from recovering for wrongful death of the child unless the parent has resumed the care for 1 year prior to death of the child or has been deprived of custody of the child under a support order and has complied with support obligations.

SB 52 - AMENDMENTS


     SCA (1, B. Bailey) - Add a section to permit the act to be cited as Mary Jo's Law.
     SCA (2, R. Stivers) - Include language relating to the re-establishment of a parental bond with an adult child.
     SFA (3, B. Bailey) - Add short title to permit act to be cited as Mandy Jo's Law.
     HFA (1, J. Vincent) - Require that any part of a decedent child's estate prevented from passing to a parent through intestate succession, under the provisions of the Act, shall pass through intestate succession as if that parent has failed to survive the decedent child.
     HFA (2/P, J. Fischer) - Attach the provisions of HB 378/HCS.
     HFA (3/Title, J. Fischer) - Make title amendment.

     Jan 5-introduced in Senate
     Jan 7-to Judiciary (S)
     Jan 19-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with committee amendments (1) and (2)
     Jan 20-2nd reading, to Rules
     Jan 21-moved from Consent; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 26, 2000
     Jan 26-passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day; floor amendment (3) filed
     Jan 27-3rd reading; committee amendments (1) and (2) withdrawn ; passed 33-4 with floor amendment (3)
     Jan 28-received in House
     Feb 1-to Judiciary (H)
     Mar 13-posted in committee
     Mar 16-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Mar 17-2nd reading, to Rules
     Mar 20-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 21, 2000
     Mar 21-floor amendments (1) (2) and (3-title) filed
     Mar 23-floor amendments (2) and (3-title) withdrawn ; 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with floor amendment (1)
     Mar 24-received in Senate
     Mar 29-posted for passage for concurrence in House floor amendment (1) ; taken from the Regular Orders of the Day, placed in Consent Orders of the Day; Senate concurred in House floor amendment (1) ; passed 37-0
     Apr 11-enrolled, signed by each presiding officer, delivered to Governor
     Apr 21-signed by Governor (Acts ch. 414)


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