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| Bill | Post-adoption contact and communication agreements; involuntary termination of parental rights. | Post-adoption contact and communication agreements;involuntary termination of parental rights. Provides that a child'sbirth parent or parents for whom parental rights were involuntarily terminated may enter into a post-adoption contact and communicationagreement with the child's pre-adoptive parent or parents. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | HB 721 | Virginia HB 721 (2020) |
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3 | 22 | 6 | 2020-01-06 | 2020-03-03 | openstates | ocd-bill/391687f2-522d-47ac-af16-0dc1d868c21c | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB721 | 1c4c72d837d1e71f3ab978c5ecf3a2ba68758f51c76ac46cf21d4a0c90b411cc | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 721 (2020) — Post-adoption contact and communication agreements; involuntary termination of parental rights.
Post-adoption contact and communication agreements;involuntary termination of parental rights. Provides that a child'sbirth parent or parents for whom parental rights were involuntarily terminated may enter into a post-adoption contact and communicationagreement with the child's pre-adoptive parent or parents.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB721ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (HB721) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- David A. Reid — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101572D
introduction - 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB721)
- 2020-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2020-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-29 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-01-30 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-01-31 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
referral-committee - 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-17 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-17 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-20 Enrolled
- 2020-02-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB721ER)
- 2020-02-20 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-02-21 Signed by President
- 2020-02-25 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2020
- 2020-02-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 3, 2020
- 2020-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 98 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/391687f2-522d-47ac-af16-0dc1d868c21c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).