---
type: "Bill"
title: "Standby guardianship; triggering event."
description: "Standby guardianship; triggering event. Allows a parent who has reason to anticipate his possible detention, incarceration, or deportation connected to an immigration action to petition the court for approval of a standby guardian for the parent's minor child."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1184"
citation: "Virginia SB 1184 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a586e5e-6dda-4ee4-8ec4-a7f6b50f58f2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1184"
source_hash: "7c94ef3ff7addff01ea828faaddaa69012cf9fd443f88c4445f2dd54290b3a31"
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 SB 1184 (2021) — Standby guardianship; triggering event.

Standby guardianship; triggering event. Allows a parent who has reason to anticipate his possible detention, incarceration, or deportation connected to an immigration action to petition the court for approval of a standby guardian for the parent's minor child.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0241** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0241)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103377D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1184S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100004D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1184)
4. **SB1184ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1184ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
- Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100004D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB1184)
- **2021-01-27** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-27** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Committee substitute printed 21103377D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 21103377D-S1
- **2021-02-01** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1184S1
- **2021-02-02** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice
- **2021-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB1184S1)
- **2021-02-11** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled
- **2021-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB1184ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by President
- **2021-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 241 (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/1a586e5e-6dda-4ee4-8ec4-a7f6b50f58f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).