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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Guardian ad litem; appointment, requested information, records, or reports."
+description: "Guardian ad litem; appointment, requested information, records, or reports."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 1144"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1144 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McPike"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2023-01-10"
+last_action: "2023-03-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0153838a-bae0-42c0-a54b-6e7af00d4fe3"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1144"
+source_hash: "0a3bac9a00db1ea748cd4c46de68d29bad1e5d1552c9df86cc2c694ea5bcf166"
+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 SB 1144 (2023) — Guardian ad litem; appointment, requested information, records, or reports.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0261** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0261)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104005D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1144)
+3. **SB1144ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1144ER)
+4. **SB1144S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1144S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McPike — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104005D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-20** Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB1144)
+- **2023-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-25** Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-25** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-26** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-01** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-03** Floor substitute printed 23106336D-S1 (McPike)
+- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-03** Committee amendments rejected `amendment-failure`
+- **2023-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2023-02-03** Substitute by Senator McPike agreed to 23106336D-S1
+- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1144S1
+- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1144S1)
+- **2023-02-03** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-20** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1144ER) `passage`
+- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB1144ER)
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 261 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0153838a-bae0-42c0-a54b-6e7af00d4fe3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+