The Florida Senate

HB 185: Grandparents' Visitation Rights

GENERAL BILL by Kelly ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Fasano ; Goodlette ; Harrington ; Wiles ; Jacobs ; Greenstein ; Bloom

Grandparents' Visitation Rights; provides additional grounds for award of visitation rights to grandparents; provides additional grounds for court to consider in determining best interest of child re award of visitation to grandparents; provides criteria for court to consider in determining whether granting visitation to grandparents will materially harm parent-child relationship. Amends 752.01.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  12/15/1998	House	• Prefiled
  12/18/1998	House	• Referred to Family Law & Children (CJC); Judiciary (CJC)
  3/2/1999	House	• Introduced, referred to Family Law & Children (CJC); Judiciary (CJC) -HJ 00031
  3/26/1999	House	• On Committee agenda-- Family Law & Children (CJC), 03/30/99, 4:00 pm, 317C
  3/30/1999	House	• Comm. Action: Unanimously Favorable with 6 amendment(s) by Family Law & Children (CJC) -HJ 00513
  4/1/1999	House	• Now in Judiciary (CJC) -HJ 00513
  4/14/1999	House	• On Committee agenda-- Judiciary (CJC), 04/15/99, 1:30 pm, Morris Hall --Not considered
  4/30/1999	House	• Died in Committee on Judiciary (CJC)

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• HB 185, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 8/28/2000 at 9:26 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Family Law & Children (Post-Meeting) 3/22/1999 (pdf) Family Law & Children (Post-Meeting) 4/1/1999 (pdf) Family Law & Children (Post-Meeting) 5/11/1999 (pdf) Judiciary (Post-Meeting) 4/14/1999 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 696 (c1)	Grandparents' Visitation Rights	Campbell	Similar	Last Action: 4/30/1999 S Died on Calendar Location:

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  752.01	Action by grandparent for right of visitation; when petition shall be granted.

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