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H0749......................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
ADOPTION - Adds to existing law to allow an action to annul an adoption
when the marriage of a natural parent and adoptive parent is terminated.
02/19 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/20 Rpt prt - to Jud
02/26 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/27 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/03 3rd rdg - PASSED - 66-0-4
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Bivens,
Black(15), Black(23), Boe, Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase,
Clark, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20),
Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hadley, Hansen, Henbest, Hornbeck, Jaquet,
Jones(9), Jones(22), Jones(20), Judd, Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell,
Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader, Marley, McKague,
Meyer, Miller, Mortensen, Newcomb, Pischner, Pomeroy, Reynolds,
Richman, Ridinger, Sali, Schaefer, Stevenson, Stoicheff, Stone,
Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Trail, Watson, Wheeler, Wood, Zimmermann
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- Crane, Robison, Stubbs, Mr Speaker
Floor Sponsor - Wood
Title apvd - to Senate
03/04 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Jud
03/09 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/10 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/17 3rd rdg - PASSED - 31-0-4
AYES--Andreason, Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
Crow, Danielson, Darrington, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure, Geddes,
Hawkins, Ingram, Keough, King, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh, Parry,
Richardson, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder, Sorensen, Stennett, Sweeney,
Thorne, Twiggs, Wheeler
NAYS--None
Absent and excused--Hansen, Ipsen, Riggs, Whitworth
Floor Sponsor - Deide
Title apvd - to House
03/18 To enrol
03/18 Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/19 Pres signed - to Governor
03/20 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 167
Effective: 07/01/98
H0749|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session - 1998IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 749 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO DISSOLUTION OF ADOPTION; AMENDING CHAPTER 15, TITLE 16, IDAHO 3 CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 16-1509A, IDAHO CODE, TO AUTHORIZE 4 THE DISSOLUTION OF AN ADOPTION UNDER CONDITIONS SPECIFIED. 5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 6 SECTION 1. That Chapter 15, Title 16, Idaho Code, be, and the same is 7 hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION , to be 8 known and designated as Section 16-1509A, Idaho Code, and to read as follows: 9 16-1509A. DISSOLUTION OF ADOPTION. An adoption may be dissolved, upon 10 petition, with the agreement of both the adoptee and the adopting parent, when 11 the adopting parent was the spouse of a natural parent, and the marriage of 12 the natural parent and adoptive parent was terminated. If the petition for 13 dissolution occurs after the death of the adoptive parent, the court shall, in 14 the finding of dissolution, specify the effect upon rights of inheritance. The 15 court must determine that avoidance of statutory care is not the purpose of 16 the dissolution, unless the court finds grounds to waive this finding. An 17 action to obtain a decree of dissolution of adoption may be commenced at any 18 time after the adoptee reaches twenty-one (21) years of age.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS08095
To establish a method for dissolving an adult adoption
procedure, hereto not acknowledged in statute in Idaho
Code.
FISCAL NOTE
No fiscal impact
CONTACT: Representative JoAn Wood
332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE
H 749