---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social Services, Department of; survey for children aging out of foster care."
description: "Directs the Department of Social Services, in coordination with the Commission on Youth, to develop a process and standardized survey to gather feedback from children aging out of foster care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1451"
citation: "Virginia HB 1451 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peter F. Farrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-12-02"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/731845b7-7a3a-49a2-bd14-5aedb398c6cc"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1451"
source_hash: "442e70a59ddc055c6caef3543acd774c60dbfe47451e97f735de6ba62b1896ef"
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 1451 (2017) — Social Services, Department of; survey for children aging out of foster care.

Directs the Department of Social Services, in coordination with the Commission on Youth, to develop a process and standardized survey to gather feedback from children aging out of foster care.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0187)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1451ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1451ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100819D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1451)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rules — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Peter F. Farrell — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100819D `introduction`
- **2016-12-02** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-20** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-23** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/731845b7-7a3a-49a2-bd14-5aedb398c6cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).