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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adoption; circuit court to accept a petition filed by child's foster parent."
+description: "Adoption; circuit court to accept a petition filed by child's foster parent."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 418"
+citation: "Virginia HB 418 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Carroll Foy"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2018-01-05"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24615563-b34f-40b6-85bc-6d66fbc9e08b"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB418"
+source_hash: "38452dc33e64d29de66d1c7dcd4663690af58c1cccff0ed30f45031f2e07e30b"
+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 418 (2018) — Adoption; circuit court to accept a petition filed by child's foster parent.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB418ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB418ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101575D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB418)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101575D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-05** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-09** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-12** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-13** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 94 (effective 3/2/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24615563-b34f-40b6-85bc-6d66fbc9e08b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+