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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adoption by relative; expands the applicability of procedures."
+description: "Expands the applicability of adoption procedures for a child's close relatives to all of the child's adult relatives, including stepparents, stepbrothers or stepsisters, and all other adult relatives of the child by marriage or adoption."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2208"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2208 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Minors", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Emily M. Brewer"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1bd44c4-787f-4d36-a15a-62d94959d2be"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2208"
+source_hash: "5b9a19ced877c5baf2032511436c2dd6a1e632e572788ea2f61a0d2bd3647594"
+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 2208 (2019) — Adoption by relative; expands the applicability of procedures.
+
+Expands the applicability of adoption procedures for a child's close relatives to all of the child's adult relatives, including stepparents, stepbrothers or stepsisters, and all other adult relatives of the child by marriage or adoption.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0377)
+2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2208)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2208ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2208ER)
+4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105799D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2208H1)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101194D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2208)
+6. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2208ASE)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **99–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Emily M. Brewer — primary (person)
+- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101194D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-16** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 19105799D-H1
+- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2208H1
+- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-07** Assigned Rehab sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-19** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2019-02-19** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2019-02-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2019-02-20** Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 1-N)
+- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
+- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1bd44c4-787f-4d36-a15a-62d94959d2be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+