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| Bill | Adoption; proper notice of proceeding to legal custodian. | Legal custodian; parties to a pending custodyor visitation case; notice of adoption proceeding. Provides thata legal custodian of a child being placed for adoption, and any othernamed parties in pending cases in which the custody or visitationof such child is at issue, shall be entitled to proper notice of anyadoption proceeding and an opportunity to be heard. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | HB 94 | Virginia HB 94 (2020) |
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Virginia HB 94 (2020) — Adoption; proper notice of proceeding to legal custodian.
Legal custodian; parties to a pending custodyor visitation case; notice of adoption proceeding. Provides thata legal custodian of a child being placed for adoption, and any othernamed parties in pending cases in which the custody or visitationof such child is at issue, shall be entitled to proper notice of anyadoption proceeding and an opportunity to be heard.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB94ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by House as amended HB94E (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (HB94) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N) — 33–6 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Referred from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Chris Collins-Resigned 6/28/20 — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-12-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102572D
introduction - 2019-12-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB94)
- 2020-01-14 Assigned HWI sub: Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-01-21 Referred from Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 2020-01-21 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2020-01-21 Assigned Courts sub: Civil
referral-committee - 2020-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 2020-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-29 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-01-30 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-01-30 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2020-01-30 Engrossed by House as amended HB94E
- 2020-01-30 Printed as engrossed 20102572D-E
- 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 Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB94E)
- 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 (HB94ER)
- 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 3 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d2ab51c-3323-43e6-af9e-8e04d58c2ba2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).