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Senate committee backs bill to allow confirmatory adoptions and standby guardianships for parents facing immigration actions
Summary
A Judiciary Committee report on H.98 would create an expedited confirmatory adoption process for parents who used assisted reproduction and allow standby guardianships for children when a parent is subject to adverse immigration proceedings; the Senate voted to propose committee amendments to the House and ordered third reading.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday reported H.98, a bill combining two substantive policy changes: an expedited confirmatory adoption process for parents who conceived by assisted reproduction and a standby guardianship mechanism for children whose custodial parents are subject to adverse immigration proceedings.
Senator Hashim, reporting for the committee, told the Senate the two parts were combined because “they either establish or modify existing policies for probate hearings involving parents and their kids.” The committee voted 5–0 to recommend the bill with the committee’s proposed amendments.
The bill’s confirmatory adoption provisions would add a section to Title 15A establishing an…
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