republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-786.md

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Bill	Guardianship and conservatorship; restoration or modification or termination of order.	Guardianship and conservatorship; restorationof capacity or modification or termination of order; informal communication.Allows a person subject to a guardianship or conservatorship whois not represented by counsel to initiate the process to be restoredto capacity or have such guardianship or conservatorship modifiedor terminated by informal communication to the court by any means,including by informal letter, telephone call, email, or in-personvisit, in lieu of the petition requirement specified under currentlaw.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 786	Virginia HB 786 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	5	36	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/8334d43e-16a5-4ade-80a9-7465c9d558da	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB786	81b673ea01731ec654996d7acb1135bb1b4c2567a9f9250cb22a1e21cd3a1908	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 786 (2024) — Guardianship and conservatorship; restoration or modification or termination of order.

Guardianship and conservatorship; restorationof capacity or modification or termination of order; informal communication.Allows a person subject to a guardianship or conservatorship whois not represented by counsel to initiate the process to be restoredto capacity or have such guardianship or conservatorship modifiedor terminated by informal communication to the court by any means,including by informal letter, telephone call, email, or in-personvisit, in lieu of the petition requirement specified under currentlaw.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0820 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106747D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB786ER (committee substitute) — source
4. HB786ER2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104780D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• BLOCK VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104780D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Committee substitute printed 24106747D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 24106747D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-07 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB786H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB786ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 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
• 2024-04-08 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2024-04-17 House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 BLOCK VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled bill text (HB786ER2) enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 820 (effective 7/1/24) became-law
• 2024-04-17 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8334d43e-16a5-4ade-80a9-7465c9d558da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).