Maryland House of Delegates bill in Session 2026.
Status: introduced. Latest action: April 24, 2026.
Family Law - Children in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights (Right to Fight Act).
Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a parent or guardian has involuntarily lost parental rights to a sibling of the child; and repealing the authorization for a juvenile court to waive a local department's obligation to provide certain services if a parent has involuntarily lost certain parental rights.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-14 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-01-14 | Status | introduced |
| 2026-04-24 | Latest Action | In the House - Hearing 1/29 at 2:00 p.m. |