republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-227.md

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Bill	Adoption by stepparent; background check.	Requires a circuit court, when determining whether an investigation by the director of the local department of social services should be required before a final order is entered to approve as an adoptive parent the spouse of a child's birth or adoptive parent, to consider the results of a national criminal history background check conducted on the prospective adoptive parent. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2020.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 227	Virginia HB 227 (2018)	bill	Courts of Record Criminal Procedure Welfare (Social Services)	enacted	Christopher P. Stolle	5	24	7	2017-12-29	2018-02-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b129384d-f0b0-45af-b59d-6e51f805278e	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB227	21865497364112dc57dd42ff90b2277c9d3001ecff7d4b32facf7c1600029b98	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 227 (2018) — Adoption by stepparent; background check.

Requires a circuit court, when determining whether an investigation by the director of the local department of social services should be required before a final order is entered to approve as an adoptive parent the spouse of a child's birth or adoptive parent, to consider the results of a national criminal history background check conducted on the prospective adoptive parent. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2020.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB227ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102229D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 18102229D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106639D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House — 97–1 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate substitute agreed to by House 18106639D-S1 — 97–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Christopher P. Stolle — primary (person)
• Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-29 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102229D introduction
• 2017-12-29 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2018-01-15 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2018-01-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-01-23 Passed by for the day
• 2018-01-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-01-24 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2018-01-24 Engrossed by House as amended HB227E
• 2018-01-24 Printed as engrossed 18102229D-E
• 2018-01-25 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-01-26 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2018-02-06 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-06 Reading of substitute waived
• 2018-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 18106639D-S1
• 2018-02-06 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB227S1
• 2018-02-07 Placed on Calendar
• 2018-02-08 Senate substitute agreed to by House 18106639D-S1 (97-Y 1-N)
• 2018-02-12 Enrolled
• 2018-02-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-14 Signed by President
• 2018-02-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
• 2018-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2018
• 2018-02-22 Approved by Governor-Chapter 9 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b129384d-f0b0-45af-b59d-6e51f805278e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).