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Bill	Foster care; termination of residual parental rights, relatives and fictive kin.	Foster care; termination of parental rights; relatives and fictive kin. Requires local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to involve in the development of a child's foster care plan the child's relatives and fictive kin who are interested in the child's welfare. The bill requires that a child 12 years of age or older be involved in the development of his foster care plan; under current law, a child's involvement is mandatory upon reaching 14 years of age. The bill contains other amendments to provisions governing foster care and termination of parental rights that encourage the placement of children with relatives and fictive kin.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 1962	Virginia HB 1962 (2021)	bill		enacted	Wendy W. Gooditis	5	42	9	2021-01-11	2021-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/d848bd8f-0560-4181-96b5-1eacd3975849	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1962	527f56b58baa3cb4f76d95774425345987807e292e61cd0973129881f69c3139	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1962 (2021) — Foster care; termination of residual parental rights, relatives and fictive kin.

Foster care; termination of parental rights; relatives and fictive kin. Requires local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to involve in the development of a child's foster care plan the child's relatives and fictive kin who are interested in the child's welfare. The bill requires that a child 12 years of age or older be involved in the development of his foster care plan; under current law, a child's involvement is mandatory upon reaching 14 years of age. The bill contains other amendments to provisions governing foster care and termination of parental rights that encourage the placement of children with relatives and fictive kin.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0535 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103967D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1962ER (committee substitute) — source
4. HB1962ER2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102613D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wendy W. Gooditis — primary (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102613D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2021-01-15 Assigned HWI sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2021-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB1962)
• 2021-01-27 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-28 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-28 Committee substitute printed 21103967D-H1 substitution
• 2021-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-02 Committee substitute agreed to 21103967D-H1
• 2021-02-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1962H1
• 2021-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB1962H1)
• 2021-02-03 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 2021-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2021-02-03 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-02-04 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-12 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-16 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-16 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-19 Enrolled
• 2021-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB1962ER)
• 2021-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-22 Signed by President
• 2021-02-24 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
• 2021-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-31 Governor's recommendation received by House
• 2021-04-07 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-04-07 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (98-Y 0-N)
• 2021-04-07 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2021-04-07 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2021-04-07 Governor's recommendation adopted
• 2021-04-07 Reenrolled
• 2021-04-07 Reenrolled bill text (HB1962ER2)
• 2021-04-07 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 2021-04-07 Signed by President as reenrolled
• 2021-04-07 Enacted, Chapter 535 (effective 7/1/21) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d848bd8f-0560-4181-96b5-1eacd3975849. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).