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Bill Children's Ombudsman, Office of the; foster youth's right to receive information. Office of the Children's Ombudsman; foster youth's right to receive information. Requires the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or any child-placing agency to provide certain information along with the contact information for the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to a biological parent, prospective adoptive parent, or foster parent, as well as to any child in foster care age 12 or older upon the opening of a foster care case for such child. The bill also provides that, in relation to complaints made to the Ombudsman, if such child is the complainant, the Ombudsman need not gain the consent of the Department or local department of social services, the children's residential facility, the child-placing agency, or the foster parent or guardian of the child or other person having custody or care of the child to receive information from or communicate with the child. This bill is identical to SB 1406. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 1777 Virginia HB 1777 (2025)
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Virginia HB 1777 (2025) — Children's Ombudsman, Office of the; foster youth's right to receive information.

Office of the Children's Ombudsman; foster youth's right to receive information. Requires the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or any child-placing agency to provide certain information along with the contact information for the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to a biological parent, prospective adoptive parent, or foster parent, as well as to any child in foster care age 12 or older upon the opening of a foster care case for such child. The bill also provides that, in relation to complaints made to the Ombudsman, if such child is the complainant, the Ombudsman need not gain the consent of the Department or local department of social services, the children's residential facility, the child-placing agency, or the foster parent or guardian of the child or other person having custody or care of the child to receive information from or communicate with the child. This bill is identical to SB 1406.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — primary (person)
  • David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
  • Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
  • Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
  • Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
  • Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
  • Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102551D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2025-01-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1777)
  • 2025-01-14 Referred from General Laws and referred to Health and Human Services (Voice Vote) referral-committee
  • 2025-01-15 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
  • 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-28 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2025-02-12 Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) referral-committee
  • 2025-02-14 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (11-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
  • 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-18 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1777ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1777)
  • 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 200 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5ec0f11-d9a3-456d-99f7-6184e00af9c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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