republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-27.md

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Bill	Kinship foster care; placement of child with foster parent.	Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program established. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program to promoteand support placements of children with relatives by local boardsof social services in order to avoid foster care. The bill providesthat a child is eligible to participate in the Program if the localboard determines that (i) the child is at imminent risk of beingremoved from his home and a preliminary protective order is insufficientto address the child's immediate safety concerns and (ii) the child'sparent or guardian consents to the placement of the child with arelative pursuant to an agreement with the local board developedin accordance with the provisions of the bill.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 27	Virginia HB 27 (2024)	bill		enacted	Katrina Callsen	4	37	9	2023-12-18	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/9fe35023-0adf-4307-9895-f79d2ed48b4a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB27	6db22f358503014d895c8fbbaa381783564ff5a500733a81c012fbfcc04a47b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 27 (2024) — Kinship foster care; placement of child with foster parent.

Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program established. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program to promoteand support placements of children with relatives by local boardsof social services in order to avoid foster care. The bill providesthat a child is eligible to participate in the Program if the localboard determines that (i) the child is at imminent risk of beingremoved from his home and a preliminary protective order is insufficientto address the child's immediate safety concerns and (ii) the child'sparent or guardian consents to the placement of the child with arelative pursuant to an agreement with the local board developedin accordance with the provisions of the bill.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0629 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106095D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB27ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103039D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Katrina Callsen — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103039D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-18 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-18 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-23 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Committee substitute printed 24106095D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-23 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB27H1)
• 2024-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Committee substitute agreed to 24106095D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB27H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 VOTE: Passage (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB27ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB27ER)
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 629 (effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9fe35023-0adf-4307-9895-f79d2ed48b4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).