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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Putative Father Registry; changes name to Virginia Birth Father Registry."
+description: "Putative Father Registry; changes name to Virginia Birth Father Registry."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2216"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2216 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Courts of Record", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David J. Toscano"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-11"
+last_action: "2017-02-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f63c41d-f973-4c40-8ded-0bd53469c511"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2216"
+source_hash: "d82e3d97fa6da2e0e63dd58a3bb4672619a7b0634cda81be2ff0e49c80e3dcad"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 2216 (2017) — Putative Father Registry; changes name to Virginia Birth Father Registry.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0200)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2216ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2216ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101354D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2216)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David J. Toscano — primary (person)
+- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101354D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-17** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
+- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
+- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 200 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f63c41d-f973-4c40-8ded-0bd53469c511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+