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type: "Bill"
title: "Public guardian and conservator program; decennial review of staff-to-client ratios, report."
description: "Public guardian and conservator program; decennialreview of staff-to-client ratios; report. Directs the Departmentof Aging and Rehabilitative Services (the Department) to decennially review the ideal range of staff-to-client ratios for local and regionalpublic guardian and conservator programs in the Commonwealth and make recommendations as to whether the ratio should be revised toensure that public guardians are able to meet their obligations toincapacitated persons. The bill requires the Department to reportits findings and conclusions to the Governor and the General Assemblyby December 1 of each year in which such review is performed anddirects the Department to complete the first decennial review andsubmit its report by December 1, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 96"
citation: "Virginia HB 96 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8710a783-33b6-4ad1-88e6-8dcc52ae79f8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB96"
source_hash: "81cceafc6c125827dc7cd500a9c5e91571f55b78504e1e4e165b7ceacb7c1b78"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 96 (2022) — Public guardian and conservator program; decennial review of staff-to-client ratios, report.
Public guardian and conservator program; decennialreview of staff-to-client ratios; report. Directs the Departmentof Aging and Rehabilitative Services (the Department) to decennially review the ideal range of staff-to-client ratios for local and regionalpublic guardian and conservator programs in the Commonwealth and make recommendations as to whether the ratio should be revised toensure that public guardians are able to meet their obligations toincapacitated persons. The bill requires the Department to reportits findings and conclusions to the Governor and the General Assemblyby December 1 of each year in which such review is performed anddirects the Department to complete the first decennial review andsubmit its report by December 1, 2022.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0272** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0272)
2. **HB96ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB96ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100563D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB96)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **90** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100563D `introduction`
- **2022-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB96)
- **2022-01-18** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-01** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Enrolled
- **2022-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-25** Signed by President
- **2022-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB96ER)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 272 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8710a783-33b6-4ad1-88e6-8dcc52ae79f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).