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Bill	Appointment of guardian ad litem; child in need of services or supervision.	Office of the Executive Secretary; notification to guardian ad litems representing juveniles; child in need of services or supervision. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to send notification to attorneys qualified for appointment as guardians ad litem that, if appointed to represent a child who is alleged to be a child in need of services or supervision, such attorney should have familiarity with the statutes providing the dispositional alternatives available when a juvenile and domestic relations district court finds that a child is in need of services or supervision.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2596	Virginia HB 2596 (2025)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	5	33	8	2025-01-13	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/659a1e7f-b300-431e-aa34-70137a3d14ab	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2596	a5242a5cd4b3d84c2e0474b6febe4f8c5d1f2a444d85d0618c07720580c5cade	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2596 (2025) — Appointment of guardian ad litem; child in need of services or supervision.

Office of the Executive Secretary; notification to guardian ad litems representing juveniles; child in need of services or supervision. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to send notification to attorneys qualified for appointment as guardians ad litem that, if appointed to represent a child who is alleged to be a child in need of services or supervision, such attorney should have familiarity with the statutes providing the dispositional alternatives available when a juvenile and domestic relations district court finds that a child is in need of services or supervision.

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. Courts of Justice Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104535D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106382D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2596)
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2596ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2596)
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 96 (Effective 07/01/25 ) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/659a1e7f-b300-431e-aa34-70137a3d14ab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).