2SHB 1205: Responsibility for providing service by publication of a summons or notice in dependency and termination of parental rights cases.
Signed into law: Chapter 312, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Taylor
- Introduced
- January 10, 2023
- Status
- C 312 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 1/31/2026. (March 28, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:01 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Provides that in a child dependency or termination of parental rights proceeding, the petitioner, rather than the court clerk, is responsible for publishing notice in a legal newspaper where notice by publication is required.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 6, 202395 yea · 0 nay · 3 not voting
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 12, 202497 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 5, 202495 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · February 29, 202449 yea · 0 nay
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