republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-818.md

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Bill	Children in foster care; federal benefits, written notice by certified mail, notice of eligibility.	Local department of social services; children in foster care; federal benefits; notice of eligibility. Provides that, if the local department of social services serves as representative payee for a child receiving certain federal benefits, specified in the bill, the local department of social services shall provide written notice, in person or by certified mail, that it is acting as the child's representative payee within 30 days after receiving the first benefit payment on behalf of the child to (i) the child, if the child is 12 years of age or older; (ii) the child's parent, prior guardian, or prior custodian, or, if there is no legal parent or prior guardian or custodian, the child's next of kin; (iii) the guardian ad litem, if applicable; and (iv) the counsel appointed for the child, if applicable.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 818	Virginia SB 818 (2025)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	7	35	7	2024-12-31	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/c0e0f5bc-5583-4461-828c-e2beacb315b0	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB818	171f8542b9e1991ff9c577ce3156658bc49c1b921d8f6714078b243caa7c7d58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 818 (2025) — Children in foster care; federal benefits, written notice by certified mail, notice of eligibility.

Local department of social services; children in foster care; federal benefits; notice of eligibility. Provides that, if the local department of social services serves as representative payee for a child receiving certain federal benefits, specified in the bill, the local department of social services shall provide written notice, in person or by certified mail, that it is acting as the child's representative payee within 30 days after receiving the first benefit payment on behalf of the child to (i) the child, if the child is 12 years of age or older; (ii) the child's parent, prior guardian, or prior custodian, or, if there is no legal parent or prior guardian or custodian, the child's next of kin; (iii) the guardian ad litem, if applicable; and (iv) the counsel appointed for the child, if applicable.

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. Health and Human Services Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Health and Human Services Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. House Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Rehabilitation and Social Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House Amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (94-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-31 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102030D filing, introduction
• 2024-12-31 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-17 Committee substitute printed 25104462D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB818)
• 2025-01-20 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-20 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-21 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-21 Rehabilitation and Social Services Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-21 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-22 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-26 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB818)
• 2025-02-04 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-06 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-11 Health and Human Services Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-11 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-11 Passed House with amendment (94-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-13 House Amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB818ER) passage
• 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB818)
• 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 354 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0e0f5bc-5583-4461-828c-e2beacb315b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).