Relating to child custody for parents subject to short-term deployments

This bill relates to child custody and visitation for parents subject to short-term deployment. The bill defines “short-term deployment” as the movement or mobilization of a deploying parent for less than days pursuant to uniformed service member orders that are designated as unaccompanied, do not authorize dependent travel, or otherwise do not permit family members to accompany the deploying parent. The bill allows a deploying parent who is unable to exercise court-ordered physical care or visitation during a short-term deployment to make up the missed time days immediately preceding or days immediately following the deployment. The amount of make-up time may not exceed the number of days missed, and may not exceed days. The bill requires the deploying parent to notify the other parent, in a record, of the short-term deployment unless reasonably prevented by the circumstances of service. The deploying parent must also provide a plan for fulfilling the missed physical care or visitation to the other parent and file the plan with any court that has entered a child-custody determination in effect concerning the child.