---
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: "SB 1144"
citation: "Virginia SB 1144 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McPike"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0153838a-bae0-42c0-a54b-6e7af00d4fe3"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1144"
source_hash: "0a3bac9a00db1ea748cd4c46de68d29bad1e5d1552c9df86cc2c694ea5bcf166"
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 1144 (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. **CHAP0261** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0261)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104005D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1144)
3. **SB1144ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1144ER)
4. **SB1144S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1144S1)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- McPike — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104005D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB1144)
- **2023-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-24** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-25** Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Floor substitute printed 23106336D-S1 (McPike)
- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Committee amendments rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-03** Substitute by Senator McPike agreed to 23106336D-S1
- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1144S1
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1144S1)
- **2023-02-03** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-20** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1144ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB1144ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 261 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0153838a-bae0-42c0-a54b-6e7af00d4fe3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).