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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adoption; lowers amount of time child must reside with close relative."
+description: "Lowers from three years to two years the amount of time a child must have continuously resided with or been under the physical custody of the prospective close relative adoptive parent in order for the adoption proceeding to commence in circuit court and be exempt from the parental placement provisions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 241"
+citation: "Virginia HB 241 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Minors", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Emily M. Brewer"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-02"
+last_action: "2018-02-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf675a24-c314-434d-83e1-70979c2f0a07"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB241"
+source_hash: "35d26eea25ca704d557b7b72e3c94213f040bb5915ef247511251b381d41e07d"
+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 241 (2018) — Adoption; lowers amount of time child must reside with close relative.
+
+Lowers from three years to two years the amount of time a child must have continuously resided with or been under the physical custody of the prospective close relative adoptive parent in order for the adoption proceeding to commence in circuit court and be exempt from the parental placement provisions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0004)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB241ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB241ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103409D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB241)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Emily M. Brewer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103409D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-02** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-24** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-25** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-07** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-07** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-09** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 02/12/18
+- **2018-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2018
+- **2018-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 4 (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/cf675a24-c314-434d-83e1-70979c2f0a07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+