---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children's Services Act; effective monitoring and implementation."
description: "Children's Services Act; effective monitoringand implementation. Requires the director of the Office of Children'sServices to provide for the effective implementation of the Children'sServices Act (§ 2.2-5200 et seq.) in all localities by (i) regularly monitoring local performance measures and child and family outcomes;(ii) using audit, performance, and outcomes data to identify localprograms that need technical assistance; and (iii) working with localprograms that are consistently underperforming to develop a correctiveaction plan for submission to the Office and the State ExecutiveCouncil for Children's Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2212"
citation: "Virginia HB 2212 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenneth R. Plum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83f60ca5-b3bd-4eb9-ba38-91e04c3c08ed"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2212"
source_hash: "20e3ef8750102ae5914838a4dcf36ea062f96027673ec9625c4b83d34b2c5faa"
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 2212 (2021) — Children's Services Act; effective monitoring and implementation.

Children's Services Act; effective monitoringand implementation. Requires the director of the Office of Children'sServices to provide for the effective implementation of the Children'sServices Act (§ 2.2-5200 et seq.) in all localities by (i) regularly monitoring local performance measures and child and family outcomes;(ii) using audit, performance, and outcomes data to identify localprograms that need technical assistance; and (iii) working with localprograms that are consistently underperforming to develop a correctiveaction plan for submission to the Office and the State ExecutiveCouncil for Children's Services.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0226** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0226)
2. **HB2212ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2212ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101765D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2212)

## Votes

- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kenneth R. Plum — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101765D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB2212)
- **2021-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2021-01-26** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-27** Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-12** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB2212ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 226 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83f60ca5-b3bd-4eb9-ba38-91e04c3c08ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).