---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; expands eligibility, fictive kin, definition."
description: "Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; eligibility; fictive kin. Expands eligibility for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they had been the foster parent. This bill incorporates HB 917 and is identical to SB 178."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 933"
citation: "Virginia HB 933 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Carroll Foy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd65c58e-bdfe-4cff-9660-96e657bc25ae"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB933"
source_hash: "c1e1bcec48d74424041216c0ae8be06c26266c5160571ea2d333560b08480a4b"
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 933 (2020) — Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; expands eligibility, fictive kin, definition.

Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; eligibility; fictive kin. Expands eligibility for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they had been the foster parent. This bill incorporates HB 917 and is identical to SB 178.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0366)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB933ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB933ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB933)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB933)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB933H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB933H1)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103571D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Assigned HWI sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-23** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB933)
- **2020-01-28** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-28** Committee substitute printed 20106451D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-28** Incorporates HB917 (Brewer)
- **2020-01-28** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB933H1)
- **2020-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute agreed to 20106451D-H1
- **2020-02-07** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB933H1
- **2020-02-10** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-11** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Enrolled
- **2020-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB933ER)
- **2020-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 366 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd65c58e-bdfe-4cff-9660-96e657bc25ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).