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type: "Bill"
title: "Putative Father Registry; changes name to Virginia Birth Father Registry."
description: "Putative Father Registry; changes name to Virginia Birth Father Registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2216"
citation: "Virginia HB 2216 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Courts of Record", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David J. Toscano"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f63c41d-f973-4c40-8ded-0bd53469c511"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2216"
source_hash: "d82e3d97fa6da2e0e63dd58a3bb4672619a7b0634cda81be2ff0e49c80e3dcad"
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 2216 (2017) — Putative Father Registry; changes name to Virginia Birth Father Registry.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0200)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2216ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2216ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101354D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2216)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **50** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David J. Toscano — primary (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101354D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 200 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f63c41d-f973-4c40-8ded-0bd53469c511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).