Parental rights; fundamental right to make decisions concerning upbringing, etc., of their child. (SB908)
Introduced By
Sen. Bryce Reeves (R-Spotsylvania) with support from co-patron Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Rights of parents. Provides that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children and such right shall not be infringed by the government unless the governmental interest as applied to the parents is of the highest order and not otherwise served. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Passed
History
Date | Action |
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01/04/2013 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 |
01/04/2013 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103252D |
01/04/2013 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
01/28/2013 | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (8-Y 6-N) (see vote tally) |
01/28/2013 | Committee substitute printed 13104555D-S1 |
01/29/2013 | Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/30/2013 | Read second time |
01/30/2013 | Reading of substitute waived |
01/30/2013 | Committee substitute agreed to 13104555D-S1 |
01/30/2013 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB908S1 |
01/31/2013 | Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) (see vote tally) |
01/31/2013 | Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/31/2013 | Passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) (see vote tally) |
02/02/2013 | Placed on Calendar |
02/02/2013 | Read first time |
02/02/2013 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
02/18/2013 | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 3-N) (see vote tally) |
02/18/2013 | Committee substitute printed 13105336D-H1 |
02/19/2013 | Read second time |
02/20/2013 | Read third time |
02/20/2013 | Committee substitute agreed to 13105336D-H1 |
02/20/2013 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB908H1 |
02/20/2013 | Passed House with substitute (69-Y 26-N) |
02/20/2013 | VOTE: PASSAGE (69-Y 26-N) (see vote tally) |
02/21/2013 | House substitute agreed to by Senate (29-Y 11-N) (see vote tally) |
02/21/2013 | Title replaced 13105336D-H1 |
02/23/2013 | Enrolled |
02/23/2013 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB908ER) |
02/23/2013 | Signed by President |
02/23/2013 | Signed by Speaker |
03/21/2013 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/13) |
03/21/2013 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
Comments
How about the right of a Mom to punish her 2-year-old by making her ingest chili powder?
Parents have the right to raise their children free from interference from child protective services unless there is torture of the child involved such as what Bubberella wrote about above my comment.
Child protective Services take children away from poor and parents with disabilities more often then rich abusive parents without disabilities. Children have no business being taken away from parents just for what the parent might ingest into their own bodies. Those children taken by the state and placed in foster care suffer more abuse then they do with their own parents many times over. Forced anti psychotic medications cause wide spread suffering including Tar dive Disconesia and obesity.
That goes on to forcing parents of adolescents to put their children on forced medications due to arbitrary diagnosis of depression or face child abuse/neglect charges.
Your assertion is that drug addiction and alcoholism are a parent's right, and the state has no say in whether that environment constitutes a suitable upbringing for a child? Do I have that right?
I believe that a parent unable to conform his or her behavior to societal norms abdicates his or her right to raise a child . . .and, quite frankly, if a parent smoking crack doesn't lose his parental rights, we have failed as a society!