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type: "Bill"
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title: "Adoptive and foster care placements; Mutual Family Assessment home study."
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description: "Requires that home studies conducted by local boards of social services to determine the appropriateness of an adoptive or foster placement comply with the Mutual Family Assessment home study template and any addenda thereto developed by the Department of Social Services. The bill authorizes the Department to amend or update its Mutual Family Assessment home study template and any addenda thereto when necessary to improve the process of adoptive and foster placements, provided that such amendments or updates do not lessen the requirements of the home study process."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1795"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1795 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Minors", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Richard P. Bell"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2017-01-09"
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last_action: "2017-02-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1840ea7c-8720-42f8-86cb-aaeb3bd84e30"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1795"
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source_hash: "cade7ae6d4275b18412cd4f046ec7723b537375face48c56cd6bd744955a60cc"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1795 (2017) — Adoptive and foster care placements; Mutual Family Assessment home study.
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Requires that home studies conducted by local boards of social services to determine the appropriateness of an adoptive or foster placement comply with the Mutual Family Assessment home study template and any addenda thereto developed by the Department of Social Services. The bill authorizes the Department to amend or update its Mutual Family Assessment home study template and any addenda thereto when necessary to improve the process of adoptive and foster placements, provided that such amendments or updates do not lessen the requirements of the home study process.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0193)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1795ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1795ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101503D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1795)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Richard P. Bell — primary (person)
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- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101503D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-19** Passed by for the day
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- **2017-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-01-24** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
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- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
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- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 193 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1840ea7c-8720-42f8-86cb-aaeb3bd84e30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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