Contracts for Postadoption Contact

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Authorizing certain parties to enter into a written contract for postadoption contact which permits contact between an adopted child and his or her birth parent and siblings; requiring that the contract be filed with, approved by, and entered into a certain final judgment by the court under certain circumstances; authorizing and providing requirements for enforcement, modification, or termination of the contract; prohibiting enforcement of the contract in certain circumstances, etc.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 10, 2025SenateFiled
2. Feb 20, 2025CommitteeReferred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
3. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 7, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
5. Mar 12, 2025CommitteeCS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs7–0 vote
6. Mar 14, 2025SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
7. Mar 14, 2025CommitteeNow in Judiciary · Senate Judiciary
8. Mar 18, 2025CommitteeCS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
9. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
10. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Judiciary · Senate Judiciary

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Erin GrallR Primary sponsor · District 29
• CF Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Sponsoring committee