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| Bill | Adoption; court to refer case to child-placing agency. | Adoption. Allows a circuit court, upon consideration of a petition for adoption, to immediately enter an interlocutory order referring the case to a child-placing agency to conduct a visitation instead of entering an order of reference referring the case to a child-placing agency for investigation and makes other amendments to accommodate for and bolster this change. The bill allows petitions for adoption submitted by the persons listed as the child's parents on his birth certificate to be filed and granted under the provisions governing stepparent adoptions. The bill states that a putative father's registration with the Virginia Birth Father Registry is untimely regarding a child whose adoption has been finalized 180 days or more prior to such registration and in certain other instances set forth in the bill and allows written notice of an adoption plan to be sent to a putative father by express mail with proof of delivery in addition to delivery by personal service or certified mailing as in current law. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 869 | Virginia HB 869 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 869 (2022) — Adoption; court to refer case to child-placing agency.
Adoption. Allows a circuit court, upon consideration of a petition for adoption, to immediately enter an interlocutory order referring the case to a child-placing agency to conduct a visitation instead of entering an order of reference referring the case to a child-placing agency for investigation and makes other amendments to accommodate for and bolster this change. The bill allows petitions for adoption submitted by the persons listed as the child's parents on his birth certificate to be filed and granted under the provisions governing stepparent adoptions. The bill states that a putative father's registration with the Virginia Birth Father Registry is untimely regarding a child whose adoption has been finalized 180 days or more prior to such registration and in certain other instances set forth in the bill and allows written notice of an adoption plan to be sent to a putative father by express mail with proof of delivery in addition to delivery by personal service or certified mailing as in current law.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0377 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105788D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB869ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104018D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Emily M. Brewer — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104018D
introduction - 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2022-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB869)
- 2022-01-28 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2022-02-02 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-07 Committee substitute printed 22105788D-H1
substitution - 2022-02-09 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 22105788D-H1
- 2022-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB869H1
- 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-11 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB869H1)
- 2022-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-14 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
referral-committee - 2022-02-23 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-23 Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-28 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-28 Reading of amendments waived
- 2022-02-28 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2022-02-28 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-03-02 Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-02 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-07 Enrolled
- 2022-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB869ER)
- 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-08 Signed by President
- 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d762dbc2-0bc4-42e4-85dc-6c5c35edca6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).