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Bill	Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption.	Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption. Makes various changes to statutes governing parental placement and agency adoptions. The bill authorizes a hospital to release a child to his adoptive parents when the birth parent has executed a health care power of attorney. The bill provides that when a juvenile and domestic relations district court enters an order waiving the consent of one or both birth parents who have failed, without good cause, to appear at a hearing to execute consent for which they were given proper notice and transferring custody of a child who has been in the physical care and custody of prospective adoptive parents, such adoption shall be considered a parental placement adoption. The bill also allows the juvenile and domestic relations court to find, even if a birth parent has been given proper notice and appears at a hearing to execute consent or withholds consent, that the consent of such birth parent is withheld contrary to the best interest of the child or is unobtainable. The bill also clarifies that the effect of an order of the juvenile and domestic relations district court accepting a birth parent's consent and finding that any applicable revocation period has expired is to terminate a consenting birth parent's residual parental rights. The bill provides that a juvenile and domestic relations court shall accept consent from an out-of-state birth parent. Under current law, a juvenile and domestic relations district court is required to request consent from an out-of-state court having jurisdiction over custody matters in the jurisdiction where a birth parent resides when such birth parent does not reside in the Commonwealth. The bill adds licensed child-placing agencies and prospective adoptive parents to those with the authority to consent to surgical and medical treatment of certain minors, subject to certain requirements. The bill decreases from 45 to 10 days the time for which a hearing is required to be held upon the filing of a petition for the approval of an entrustment agreement by a local board of social services or a child welfare agency. The bill also makes technical amendments.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 783	Virginia HB 783 (2024)	bill		enacted	Charniele L. Herring	4	37	7	2024-01-09	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/a2f44766-6918-401c-8b19-0048c802f99d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB783	76ceea2780c27472327cfb02afa2bf27055d65d4d826eb5d8fb397ed6f184d23	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 783 (2024) — Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption.

Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption. Makes various changes to statutes governing parental placement and agency adoptions. The bill authorizes a hospital to release a child to his adoptive parents when the birth parent has executed a health care power of attorney. The bill provides that when a juvenile and domestic relations district court enters an order waiving the consent of one or both birth parents who have failed, without good cause, to appear at a hearing to execute consent for which they were given proper notice and transferring custody of a child who has been in the physical care and custody of prospective adoptive parents, such adoption shall be considered a parental placement adoption. The bill also allows the juvenile and domestic relations court to find, even if a birth parent has been given proper notice and appears at a hearing to execute consent or withholds consent, that the consent of such birth parent is withheld contrary to the best interest of the child or is unobtainable. The bill also clarifies that the effect of an order of the juvenile and domestic relations district court accepting a birth parent's consent and finding that any applicable revocation period has expired is to terminate a consenting birth parent's residual parental rights. The bill provides that a juvenile and domestic relations court shall accept consent from an out-of-state birth parent. Under current law, a juvenile and domestic relations district court is required to request consent from an out-of-state court having jurisdiction over custody matters in the jurisdiction where a birth parent resides when such birth parent does not reside in the Commonwealth. The bill adds licensed child-placing agencies and prospective adoptive parents to those with the authority to consent to surgical and medical treatment of certain minors, subject to certain requirements. The bill decreases from 45 to 10 days the time for which a hearing is required to be held upon the filing of a petition for the approval of an entrustment agreement by a local board of social services or a child welfare agency. The bill also makes technical amendments.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0090 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105836D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB783ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102449D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102449D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB783)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-26 Committee substitute printed 24105836D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-26 Incorporates HB112 (Sullivan)
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 24105836D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB783H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (HB783H1)
• 2024-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-19 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB783ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB783ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 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
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 90 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2f44766-6918-401c-8b19-0048c802f99d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).