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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 HB 1777. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 1406 | Virginia SB 1406 (2025) |
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Virginia SB 1406 (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 HB 1777.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Saddam Azlan Salim — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-14 Presented and ordered printed 25103787D
introduction - 2025-01-14 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2025-01-15 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1406)
- 2025-01-22 Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
referral-committee - 2025-01-31 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-03 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-03 Passed by for the day
- 2025-02-04 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2025-02-04 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-04 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-07 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-07 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2025-02-11 Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-13 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-14 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-14 Passed House (96-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-18 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1406ER)
passage - 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1406)
- 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-20 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
enrolled - 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 223 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe3d8831-96f8-4505-961c-0f88bff40471. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).