HB0078 • 2023

Protection of parental rights.

AN ACT relating to parental rights; specifying applicability of parental rights protections; and providing for an effective date.

Children Education

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Stith
Last action: 2023-02-07
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2023

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status is inactive, meaning it will not become law in the current session.

Protection of Parental Rights

The bill aims to ensure that parental rights are recognized and enforced in legal proceedings involving child custody or visitation and in communications between schools and parents.

What This Bill Does

Adds new rules to protect parents' rights when courts decide issues like child custody or visitation.
Requires state and local educational agencies to communicate with parents about their children's education.

Who It Names or Affects

Parents who have disputes over child custody, visitation, or other family matters.
Schools and educational institutions when they communicate with parents about their children's education.

Terms To Know

Parental Rights: The legal rights of a parent to raise, educate, and care for their child without undue interference from the state or other entities.
Judicial Proceeding: A court process where disputes are resolved by judges or juries.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and is now inactive, meaning it will not become law in the current session.
It does not specify how schools should communicate with parents beyond requiring communication to occur.

Bill History

2023-02-07 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2023-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2023-01-16 House
H Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary
2023-01-06 House
H Received for Introduction
2023-01-04 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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23LSO-0303
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0303
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0078

Protection of parental rights.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Stith, Haroldson, Neiman, Olsen and Wylie and Senator(s) Kinskey, Schuler and Steinmetz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to parental rights; specifying applicability of parental rights protections; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 14
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206 by creating a new subsection (c), 20
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501 and 21
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101 are amended to read:

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206.

Protection of parental rights; applicability.

(c)

The parental right as provided under this section shall also apply:

(i)

In any judicial proceeding, determination or other adjudication regarding parental rights involving parentage, neglect, the termination of parental rights, child custody or visitation under this title or under title 20 of the Wyoming statutes;

(ii)

To any state or local educational agency, school district, board of trustees, commission or school under title 21 of the Wyoming statutes regarding communication or disclosure to a parent about that parent's child.

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501.

Application and construction; protection of parental rights.

(a)

In applying and construing this act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

(b)

The parental rights protections under W.S. 14
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206 shall apply in any judicial proceeding, determination or other adjudication regarding parental rights involving parentage, neglect, the termination of parental rights, child custody or visitation under this title.

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101.

Application of Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act
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protection of parental rights.

(a)

The Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to this code and no hearing shall be held or adjudications made except in compliance with its provisions.

(b)

The parental rights protections under W.S. 14
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206 shall apply to this code regarding any communication or disclosure to a parent about that parent's child.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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