---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adoption and foster care; home study reciprocity, licensed child-placing agencies, effective date."
description: "Adoption and foster care; home study reciprocity, licensed child-placing agencies, effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1744"
citation: "Virginia HB 1744 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fb04f05-eaf2-4f08-be33-9bae2baf2421"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1744"
source_hash: "071a573bbdf7ec59767677202739b49c7b5b4cff81fedd6eba4ad8c15da37fcd"
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 1744 (2023) — Adoption and foster care; home study reciprocity, licensed child-placing agencies, effective date.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0340** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0340)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105093D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1744H1)
3. **HB1744ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1744ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103974D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1744)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103974D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1744)
- **2023-01-24** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Committee substitute printed 23105093D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 23105093D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1744H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB1744H1)
- **2023-02-06** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1744ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1744ER)
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 340 (effective -see bill) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fb04f05-eaf2-4f08-be33-9bae2baf2421`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).