5a13be122b
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
90 lines
4.7 KiB
Markdown
90 lines
4.7 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Child protective services; investigation of complaints of child abuse or neglect."
|
||
description: "Requires the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations that require local departments of social services to respond to valid reports and complaints alleging suspected abuse or neglect of a child under the age of two within 24 hours of receiving such reports or complaints."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2017"
|
||
identifier: "SB 868"
|
||
citation: "Virginia SB 868 (2017)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Minors", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 21
|
||
vote_count: 8
|
||
first_action: "2016-12-07"
|
||
last_action: "2017-03-16"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9484d5a0-4767-443b-a190-ada3667cc325"
|
||
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB868"
|
||
source_hash: "9c758718502bcf97c76ed52c22152884ba03d6a8b19678243826f1282bfaede9"
|
||
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 868 (2017) — Child protective services; investigation of complaints of child abuse or neglect.
|
||
|
||
Requires the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations that require local departments of social services to respond to valid reports and complaints alleging suspected abuse or neglect of a child under the age of two within 24 hours of receiving such reports or complaints.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0604)
|
||
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB868ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB868ER)
|
||
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104018D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB868S1)
|
||
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100860D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB868)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Reported from Finance — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
|
||
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2016-12-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100860D `introduction`
|
||
- **2016-12-07** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-01-13** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2017-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
|
||
- **2017-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 17104018D-S1
|
||
- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB868S1
|
||
- **2017-02-02** Placed on Calendar
|
||
- **2017-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-02-09** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2017-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2017-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
|
||
- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
|
||
- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
|
||
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
|
||
- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
|
||
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 604 (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/9484d5a0-4767-443b-a190-ada3667cc325`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|