republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-291.md

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Bill	Court-appointed guardians; training, powers and duties.	Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services;training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians;information required. Directs the Department for Aging and RehabilitativeServices to develop and provide training for court-appointed guardiansby July 1, 2025. The bill requires a court-appointed guardian andany skilled professional retained by such guardian to perform guardianshipduties to complete the initial training developed by the Departmentwithin four months after the date of qualification of such guardian.Under the bill, guardians appointed prior to July 1, 2025, must completesuch training by January 1, 2027. The bill further requires a guardianto include in his annual report to the local department of social services a statement as to whether such training has been completed.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 291	Virginia SB 291 (2024)	bill		enacted	Danica A. Roem	3	30	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/3e8b7800-d316-4b12-9eba-fcda334ddc6a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB291	4f42df99c13c641eb1fdbc50b47e6317b00f8738a75bd66c482e937dc8bce5c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 291 (2024) — Court-appointed guardians; training, powers and duties.

Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services;training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians;information required. Directs the Department for Aging and RehabilitativeServices to develop and provide training for court-appointed guardiansby July 1, 2025. The bill requires a court-appointed guardian andany skilled professional retained by such guardian to perform guardianshipduties to complete the initial training developed by the Departmentwithin four months after the date of qualification of such guardian.Under the bill, guardians appointed prior to July 1, 2025, must completesuch training by January 1, 2027. The bill further requires a guardianto include in his annual report to the local department of social services a statement as to whether such training has been completed.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0587 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104701D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB291ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Danica A. Roem — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104701D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB291)
• 2024-01-19 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-19 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB291ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB291ER)
• 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
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 587 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e8b7800-d316-4b12-9eba-fcda334ddc6a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).