republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1328.md

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Bill	State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created.	State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children. The bill sets forth eligibility criteria for the program, payment allowances to kinship guardians, and requirements for kinship guardianship assistance agreements.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1328	Virginia SB 1328 (2021)	bill		enacted	T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason	5	41	10	2021-01-12	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/1ae9d76b-987c-4e2f-a4a1-fa1397163c6d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1328	f9fb31337d2ede5d3e7357936eb0e05f140ea06353eeb604d8fc8f1a820672c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1328 (2021) — State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created.

State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children. The bill sets forth eligibility criteria for the program, payment allowances to kinship guardians, and requirements for kinship guardianship assistance agreements.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0254 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103088D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101857D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1328ER (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1328ES1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101857D introduction
• 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2021-01-15 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-15 Committee substitute printed 21103088D-S1 substitution
• 2021-01-15 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB1328S1)
• 2021-01-26 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-26 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (16-Y 0-N) 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 substitute waived
• 2021-01-28 Committee substitute agreed to 21103088D-S1
• 2021-01-28 Reading of amendments waived
• 2021-01-28 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2021-01-28 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1328ES1
• 2021-01-28 Printed as engrossed 21103088D-ES1
• 2021-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-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
• 2021-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB1328ES1)
• 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 (6-Y 0-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 (22-Y 0-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 BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-22 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-24 Enrolled
• 2021-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB1328ER)
• 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 254 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ae9d76b-987c-4e2f-a4a1-fa1397163c6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).