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Senate approves adoption-code revisions clarifying stepparent adoption rights and raising counseling fee cap
Utah Senate · March 4, 2009
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Summary
Senators approved House Bill 42, an Adoption and Revisions bill, clarifying parental rights in certain stepparent adoptions and increasing required birth-parent counseling from $250 to $400; the measure passed third-reading by a recorded vote of 22-1 with 6 absent.
The Utah Senate voted March 4 to advance House Bill 42, an adoption-code cleanup measure recommended by the Health and Human Services Interim Committee.
Senator Lundinquist presented the bill and said it corrects a gap in the adoption code (citing the code section discussed on…
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