The Florida Senate

SB 172: Adoption

GENERAL BILL by Rich ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Smith ; Margolis ; Bennett ; Geller

Adoption; provides that person who is homosexual is eligible to be adoptive parent under certain enumerated circumstances; requires that eligibility criteria be met by clear & convincing evidence. Amends 63.042.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  9/8/2005	Senate	• Filed
  10/26/2005	Senate	• Referred to Children and Families; Judiciary
  2/7/2006	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Children and Families, 02/14/06, 2:00 pm, 301-S --Temporarily postponed
  3/7/2006	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Children and Families; Judiciary -SJ 00054; On Committee agenda-- Children and Families, 02/14/06, 2:00 pm, 301-S --Temporarily postponed
  5/5/2006	Senate	• Died in Committee on Children and Families

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• SB 172, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/21/2005 at 12:57 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Children and Families (Post-Meeting) 2/8/2006 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 123	Adoption	McInvale	Similar	Last Action: 5/5/2006 H Died in Committee on Future of Florida's Families (HFC) Location:

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  582134 - Amendment	Children and Families (Lynn)	2/13/2006 1:17 PM	Withdrawn 2/15/2006	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  2/14/2006 2:00 PM	Children and Families	View Vote Record

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  63.042	Who may be adopted; who may adopt.

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