republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-317.md

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Bill	Children's residential facility; Off. of Children's Ombudsman to interview children in foster care.	Office of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to request that the Department of Social Services, the local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or a child-placing agency grant access and provide consent to interview children in foster care who are the subject of or the complainant in an investigation. The bill also contains technical amendments.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 317	Virginia HB 317 (2024)	bill		enacted	Debra D. Gardner	3	28	7	2024-01-05	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/e44f19b7-4b77-488f-8559-f9a36a029d69	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB317	35ee8500cb01a0d658cb3107ec50f24c93ae28cd823071b58a740870c3a5224a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 317 (2024) — Children's residential facility; Off. of Children's Ombudsman to interview children in foster care.

Office of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to request that the Department of Social Services, the local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or a child-placing agency grant access and provide consent to interview children in foster care who are the subject of or the complainant in an investigation. The bill also contains technical amendments.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0280 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB317ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103166D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra D. Gardner — primary (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103166D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB317)
• 2024-01-24 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-08 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB317ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB317ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e44f19b7-4b77-488f-8559-f9a36a029d69. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).