republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-292.md

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Bill	Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem.	Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem. Adds to the considerations regarding the suitability and propriety of a prospective guardian or conservator that a guardian ad litem is required to address in his report to the court following a petition for guardianship or conservatorship. The bill provides that the guardian ad litem shall consider the prospective guardian's or conservator's work as a professional guardian, including whether the person does so on a full-time basis, the prospective guardian's or conservator's expected capacity as a guardian, and whether the prospective guardian or conservator is named as a perpetrator in any substantiated adult protective services complaint involving the respondent following allegations of abuse or neglect.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 292	Virginia SB 292 (2024)	bill		enacted	Danica A. Roem	4	31	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/6b701758-d1e2-4eb9-8254-0ada67da21d3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB292	81a1b18576456897df6cd93fbb3926c39981088cd518f1ad0c2173a17ad5bed2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 292 (2024) — Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem.

Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem. Adds to the considerations regarding the suitability and propriety of a prospective guardian or conservator that a guardian ad litem is required to address in his report to the court following a petition for guardianship or conservatorship. The bill provides that the guardian ad litem shall consider the prospective guardian's or conservator's work as a professional guardian, including whether the person does so on a full-time basis, the prospective guardian's or conservator's expected capacity as a guardian, and whether the prospective guardian or conservator is named as a perpetrator in any substantiated adult protective services complaint involving the respondent following allegations of abuse or neglect.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0588 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104720D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24104720D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB292ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (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 24104720D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-02-07 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-02-09 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB292E
• 2024-02-09 Printed as engrossed 24104720D-E
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-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 BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB292ER) passage
• 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 588 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b701758-d1e2-4eb9-8254-0ada67da21d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).