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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adoption by stepparent; background check."
+description: "Requires a circuit court, when determining whether an investigation by the director of the local department of social services should be required before a final order is entered to approve as an adoptive parent the spouse of a child's birth or adoptive parent, to consider the results of a national criminal history background check conducted on the prospective adoptive parent. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2020."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 227"
+citation: "Virginia HB 227 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts of Record", "Criminal Procedure", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Christopher P. Stolle"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2017-12-29"
+last_action: "2018-02-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b129384d-f0b0-45af-b59d-6e51f805278e"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB227"
+source_hash: "21865497364112dc57dd42ff90b2277c9d3001ecff7d4b32facf7c1600029b98"
+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 227 (2018) — Adoption by stepparent; background check.
+
+Requires a circuit court, when determining whether an investigation by the director of the local department of social services should be required before a final order is entered to approve as an adoptive parent the spouse of a child's birth or adoptive parent, to consider the results of a national criminal history background check conducted on the prospective adoptive parent. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2020.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0009)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB227ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB227ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102229D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB227)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 18102229D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB227E)
+5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106639D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB227S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate substitute agreed to by House 18106639D-S1 — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Christopher P. Stolle — primary (person)
+- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102229D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-29** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-23** Passed by for the day
+- **2018-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB227E
+- **2018-01-24** Printed as engrossed 18102229D-E
+- **2018-01-25** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-26** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2018-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 18106639D-S1
+- **2018-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB227S1
+- **2018-02-07** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-02-08** Senate substitute agreed to by House 18106639D-S1 (97-Y 1-N)
+- **2018-02-12** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-12** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
+- **2018-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2018
+- **2018-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 9 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b129384d-f0b0-45af-b59d-6e51f805278e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+