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Bill Social Services, Commissioner of; storage and preservation of orders and adoption files. Provides the Commissioner of Social Services with certain powers and duties related to the custody, storage, preservation, and duplication of adoption files. The bill contains an emergency clause. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2018 HB 291 Virginia HB 291 (2018)
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4 22 6 2018-01-03 2018-02-22 openstates ocd-bill/e402cc04-490f-48b5-9c81-811220ba3d18 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB291 3608f219b3e84f6848b09414de5530be9fb90b1d5d538ea129d089f3b90b399b 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Virginia HB 291 (2018) — Social Services, Commissioner of; storage and preservation of orders and adoption files.

Provides the Commissioner of Social Services with certain powers and duties related to the custody, storage, preservation, and duplication of adoption files. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB291ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101573D (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Printed as engrossed 18101573D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate with amendments — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — 220 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — 150 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Senate amendments agreed to by House — 990 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 980 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101573D introduction
  • 2018-01-03 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
  • 2018-01-22 Read first time reading-1
  • 2018-01-23 Read second time reading-2
  • 2018-01-23 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2018-01-23 Engrossed by House as amended HB291E
  • 2018-01-23 Printed as engrossed 18101573D-E
  • 2018-01-24 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2018-01-25 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2018-01-25 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2018-02-06 Read third time reading-3
  • 2018-02-06 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2018-02-06 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2018-02-06 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2018-02-08 Placed on Calendar
  • 2018-02-08 Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-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 10 (effective 2/22/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e402cc04-490f-48b5-9c81-811220ba3d18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).