republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-178.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; expands eligibility, fictive kin, definition.	Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; eligibility; fictive kin. Expands eligibility for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they had been the foster parent. This bill is identical to HB 933.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 178	Virginia SB 178 (2020)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	4	29	7	2019-12-21	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/80da4c72-761f-4df6-aef8-62ce0049ea49	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB178	8382fa297d837c4d80cb4ec71b73cdbfef1795a642434880071c89ede8082b89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 178 (2020) — Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; expands eligibility, fictive kin, definition.

Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; eligibility; fictive kin. Expands eligibility for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they had been the foster parent. This bill is identical to HB 933.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB178ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB178S1) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB178S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100618D introduction
• 2019-12-21 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2020-01-17 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-17 Committee substitute printed 20105842D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-17 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB178S1)
• 2020-02-04 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-06 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 20105842D-S1
• 2020-02-06 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB178S1
• 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled
• 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB178ER)
• 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-26 Signed by President
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 224 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80da4c72-761f-4df6-aef8-62ce0049ea49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).