---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care agreements; rights of foster parent, dispute resolution."
description: "Directs the Department of Social Services to promulgate emergency regulations to ensure collaboration, communication, access, and transparency between the local boards and licensed child-placing agencies and foster parents. The bill also directs local boards of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to implement and publicize a dispute resolution process through which a foster parent may contest an alleged violation of such regulations by the local board or licensed child-placing agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2108"
citation: "Virginia HB 2108 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard P. Bell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2d106c6-61f1-4a30-90d0-7df5770cf883"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2108"
source_hash: "2f70c9935992274ac5e40eee6f5f2a0cd3315a76045f2b48112e4a639dc0647a"
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 2108 (2019) — Foster care agreements; rights of foster parent, dispute resolution.

Directs the Department of Social Services to promulgate emergency regulations to ensure collaboration, communication, access, and transparency between the local boards and licensed child-placing agencies and foster parents. The bill also directs local boards of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to implement and publicize a dispute resolution process through which a foster parent may contest an alleged violation of such regulations by the local board or licensed child-placing agency.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0336)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2108)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2108ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2108ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105862D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2108H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100233D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2108)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Richard P. Bell — primary (person)
- Brenda L. Pogge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100233D `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 19105862D-H1
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2108H1
- **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`
- **2019-02-22** 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
- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 336 (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/a2d106c6-61f1-4a30-90d0-7df5770cf883`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).