---
type: "Bill"
title: "Guardian ad litem; appointment, requested information, records, or reports."
description: "Guardian ad litem; appointment, requested information, records, or reports."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2063"
citation: "Virginia HB 2063 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glass"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb8c2d81-2eec-420c-aa74-b254dcd9c02e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2063"
source_hash: "32f8cc27678970d8fbbe386a0cdbd3f1735bb280634e79c10ce8ff4a48122547"
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 2063 (2023) — Guardian ad litem; appointment, requested information, records, or reports.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0260** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0260)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105487D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2063H1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 23106676D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2063S1)
4. **HB2063ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2063ER)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103917D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2063)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Glass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103917D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB2063)
- **2023-01-24** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-27** Committee substitute printed 23105487D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (HB2063H1)
- **2023-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 23105487D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2063H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Committee substitute printed 23106676D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB2063S1)
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-17** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-17** Committee substitute agreed to 23106676D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-17** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2063S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-17** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Senate substitute agreed to by House 23106676D-S1 (98-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2063ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB2063ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 260 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb8c2d81-2eec-420c-aa74-b254dcd9c02e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).