VA HB869 | 2022 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Adoption. Allows a circuit court, upon consideration of a petition for adoption, to immediately enter an interlocutory order referring the case to a child-placing agency to conduct a visitation instead of entering an order of reference referring the case to a child-placing agency for investigation and makes other amendments to accommodate for and bolster this change. The bill allows petitions for adoption submitted by the persons listed as the child's parents on his birth certificate to be filed and granted under the provisions governing stepparent adoptions. The bill states that a putative father's registration with the Virginia Birth Father Registry is untimely regarding a child whose adoption has been finalized 180 days or more prior to such registration and in certain other instances set forth in the bill and allows written notice of an adoption plan to be sent to a putative father by express mail with proof of delivery in addition to delivery by personal service or certified mailing as in current law. Adoption. Allows a circuit court, upon consideration of a petition for adoption, to immediately enter an interlocutory order referring the case to a child-placing agency to conduct a visitation instead of entering an order of reference referring the case to a child-placing agency for investigation and makes other amendments to accommodate for and bolster this change. The bill allows petitions for adoption submitted by the persons listed as the child's parents on his birth certificate to be filed and granted under the provisions governing stepparent adoptions. The bill states that a putative father's registration with the Virginia Birth Father Registry is untimely regarding a child whose adoption has been finalized 180 days or more prior to such registration and in certain other instances set forth in the bill and allows written notice of an adoption plan to be sent to a putative father by express mail with proof of delivery in addition to delivery by personal service or certified mailing as in current law.
Title
Adoption; court to refer case to child-placing agency.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2022-03-02 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-11 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) | |
| 2022-04-11 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/22) | |
| 2022-03-22 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022 | |
| 2022-03-22 | House | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022 |
| 2022-03-08 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2022-03-08 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2022-03-07 | House | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB869ER) |
| 2022-03-07 | House | Enrolled |
| 2022-03-02 | House | VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-03-02 | House | Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-28 | Senate | Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-28 | Senate | Committee amendments agreed to |
| 2022-02-28 | Senate | Reading of amendments waived |
| 2022-02-28 | Senate | Read third time |
| 2022-02-25 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-23 | Senate | Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-14 | Senate | Referred to Committee on the Judiciary |
| 2022-02-14 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 2022-02-11 | House | VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-11 | House | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-10 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB869H1 |
| 2022-02-10 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 22105788D-H1 |
| 2022-02-10 | House | Read second time |
| 2022-02-09 | House | Read first time |
| 2022-02-07 | House | Committee substitute printed 22105788D-H1 |
| 2022-02-07 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-02-02 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| 2022-01-28 | House | Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 |
| 2022-01-12 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2022-01-12 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104018D |
Subjects
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | 275 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1201 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1208 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1210 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1228 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1233 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1241 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 63 | 2 | 1250 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
