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| Bill | Confirmatory adoption; expands the stepparent adoption provisions. | Confirmatory adoption. Expands the stepparentadoption provisions to allow a person who is not the child's stepparentbut has a legitimate interest in the child to file a joint petitionfor adoption with the child's birth parent or parent by adoption. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2021 | SB 1321 | Virginia SB 1321 (2021) |
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Virginia SB 1321 (2021) — Confirmatory adoption; expands the stepparent adoption provisions.
Confirmatory adoption. Expands the stepparentadoption provisions to allow a person who is not the child's stepparentbut has a legitimate interest in the child to file a joint petitionfor adoption with the child's birth parent or parent by adoption.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0252 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102745D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 21102745D-E (committee substitute) — source
- SB1321ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (80-Y 20-N) — 79–20 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (11-Y 1-N 3-A) — 11–1 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N) — 5–1 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N 2-A) — 11–2 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) — 24–13 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- George L. Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102745D
introduction - 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2021-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (SB1321)
- 2021-01-22 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (11-Y 1-N 3-A)
committee-passage - 2021-01-22 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-01-26 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N 2-A)
committee-passage - 2021-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-28 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-01-28 Reading of amendments waived
- 2021-01-28 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2021-01-28 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1321E
- 2021-01-28 Printed as engrossed 21102745D-E
- 2021-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB1321E)
- 2021-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 13-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
- 2021-02-02 Read first time
reading-1 - 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 2021-02-09 Assigned HWI sub: Social Services
referral-committee - 2021-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)
- 2021-02-16 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 2021-02-16 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
referral-committee - 2021-02-16 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (20-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-16 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-17 Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-02-19 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-02-22 Read third time
reading-3 - 2021-02-22 Passed House (80-Y 20-N)
passage - 2021-02-22 VOTE: Passage (80-Y 20-N)
- 2021-02-24 Enrolled
- 2021-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB1321ER)
- 2021-02-24 Signed by President
- 2021-02-25 Signed by Speaker
- 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 252 (effective 7/1/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1da57142-a786-4b6f-81c2-9b552e32c4d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).