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Heated testimony on HB 1620 as survivors, judges differ on parenting plan changes
Summary
Edie Adams, staff to the committee, told the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee that House Bill 1620 reorganizes and updates the law on parenting‑plan limitations under RCW 26.09.191, adding definitions and new requirements for written findings.
Edie Adams, staff to the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee, opened the panel on House Bill 1620 by summarizing the bill as a reorganization and update of existing parenting‑plan limitations under RCW 26.09.191. Adams told the committee the bill separates mandatory limitations tied to specified conduct—such as child abuse or domestic violence—from discretionary limitations and adds clearer requirements for evaluations, supervised visitation, and written findings by the court.
"For the record, Edie Adams, staff to the committee," Adams said in her staff report. Representative Jamila Taylor, the bill sponsor, framed HB 1620 as a targeted reform to give judges clearer guidance and to require written findings where judges exercise discretion in ways that…
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