A bill that would enable more grandparents to petition for visitation of their grandchildren after a tragic family event is again up for consideration.

Sen. Danny Burgess has refiled legislation ( SB 674 ), which aims to expand a 2022 law he supported that empowered grandparents to petition for visitation in cases where one parent was found criminally liable for the other parent’s death.

Under SB 674, a grandparent may seek visitation under additional circumstances if one parent is deceased, missing or in a persistent vegetative state if three conditions are met:

— The child lived with the grandparent for at least six months during the year before the parent died, disappeared or was medically incapacitated.

— The child did not live in the same household as the other paren

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