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Bill Family assessments; increases timeline for completion. Family assessments; timeline. Increases from 45 days to 60 days the allowable time for completing a family assessment by a local department of social services and removes the local department's opportunity to request a 15-day extension. This bill is identical to SB 412. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 HB 778 Virginia HB 778 (2020)
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Virginia HB 778 (2020) — Family assessments; increases timeline for completion.

Family assessments; timeline. Increases from 45 days to 60 days the allowable time for completing a family assessment by a local department of social services and removes the local department's opportunity to request a 15-day extension. This bill is identical to SB 412.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB778ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (HB778) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 360 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 60 (pass) · lower
  • Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N) — 336 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — primary (person)
  • Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100614D introduction
  • 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
  • 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB778)
  • 2020-01-14 Assigned HWI sub: Social Services referral-committee
  • 2020-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-01-21 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-23 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-01-27 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-01-27 VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2020-01-28 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2020-02-07 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-11 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2020-02-11 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N)
  • 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2020-02-13 Enrolled
  • 2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (HB778ER)
  • 2020-02-13 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-02-13 Signed by President
  • 2020-02-17 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 17, 2020
  • 2020-02-17 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 24, 2020
  • 2020-02-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 5 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/869c62d5-4833-4de5-a1ea-7745250e3228. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).