FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 2247

                                  C 2 L 89 E2

BYRepresentatives Appelwick, Padden and Wineberry

Making a technical correction to the parenting act.

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

A recently enacted law amended the Parenting Act.  One section of that enactment dealt with the procedures to be followed in establishing a permanent parenting plan.  Those procedures include, among other things, requirements for submitting proposed parenting plans, amending plans, settlement conferences, setting trial dates, and entry of final decrees regarding a parenting plan.  An amendment to those procedures was intended to exempt decrees of legal separation from the provisions relating to entry of final decrees.  Inadvertently, however, the exemption was extended to the entire section, thus removing legal separation actions from all the procedural requirements of the section.

SUMMARY:

The error in the recently enacted amendment to the Parenting Act is corrected.  The exemption from procedural requirements regarding legal separations is restricted to the requirement having to do with entry of final decrees.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 89   0

      Senate    44     3

EFFECTIVE:June 1, 1989