---
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).