---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster and adoptive homes; barrier crimes, exceptions."
description: "Foster and adoptive homes; barrier crimes; exceptions. Consolidates existing barrier crime exceptions for foster or adoptive homes, including kinship foster homes, and establishes new barrier crime exceptions for certain drug offenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1060"
citation: "Virginia HB 1060 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Callsen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9ade30a-4332-48fd-86b9-e30a4f8e6ffb"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1060"
source_hash: "6945bdc9fb89827d121bda9ec90c7f0361a638404d4089ca2f67398f1e40142f"
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 1060 (2026) — Foster and adoptive homes; barrier crimes, exceptions.

Foster and adoptive homes; barrier crimes; exceptions. Consolidates existing barrier crime exceptions for foster or adoptive homes, including kinship foster homes, and establishes new barrier crime exceptions for certain drug offenses.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1088218.PDF)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1179727.PDF)

## Votes

- H VOTE: — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Katrina Callsen — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Stacey Annie Carroll — cosponsor (person)
- Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101950D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Assigned sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1060)
- **2026-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-10** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-13** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2026-02-16** Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-17** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-23** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-23** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-24** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-26** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1060ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1060)
- **2026-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 726 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9ade30a-4332-48fd-86b9-e30a4f8e6ffb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).