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Bill	Kinship foster care; notice to relatives.	Requires local boards of social services, when identifying foster care placement options, to take all reasonable steps to (i) determine whether the child has any relatives who may be eligible to become a kinship foster parent, (ii) provide notice to such relatives of their potential eligibility to become a kinship foster parent, and (iii) explain to such relatives any opportunities they may have to participate in the placement and care of the child, including opportunities available through kinship foster care or kinship guardianship. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2758	Virginia HB 2758 (2019)	bill	Welfare (Social Services)	enacted	Jennifer Carroll Foy	7	32	11	2019-01-17	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/5e52d6eb-f336-4424-a9f8-8a0842e409d2	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2758	140ade179bc7c88083ae91ec5cee6cb1f80b905588f88a25d0e525967cf4be0f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2758 (2019) — Kinship foster care; notice to relatives.

Requires local boards of social services, when identifying foster care placement options, to take all reasonable steps to (i) determine whether the child has any relatives who may be eligible to become a kinship foster parent, (ii) provide notice to such relatives of their potential eligibility to become a kinship foster parent, and (iii) explain to such relatives any opportunities they may have to participate in the placement and care of the child, including opportunities available through kinship foster care or kinship guardianship. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2758ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Presented and ordered printed 19105067D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19105067D-E (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment rejected by House — 0–96 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
• Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 19105067D introduction
• 2019-01-17 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2019-01-22 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-01 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2019-02-01 Engrossed by House as amended HB2758E
• 2019-02-01 Printed as engrossed 19105067D-E
• 2019-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2019-02-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-05 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2019-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-12 Reading of amendment waived
• 2019-02-12 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2019-02-12 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2019-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-14 Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
• 2019-02-18 Senate requested conference committee
• 2019-02-19 House acceded to request
• 2019-02-19 Conferees appointed by House
• 2019-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2019-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2019-02-21 Passed by temporarily
• 2019-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
• 2019-03-07 Enrolled
• 2019-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-03-09 Signed by President
• 2019-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
• 2019-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 437 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e52d6eb-f336-4424-a9f8-8a0842e409d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).