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type: "Bill"
title: "Child protective services; investigations and family assessments, contact information."
description: "Requires any individual who is the subject of a child abuse or neglect investigation or family assessment to notify the local department of social services prior to changing his place of residence and provide the local department with the address of his new residence. The bill also requires the Department of Social Services to document and report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2020, the number of individuals who notified a local department of social services of a change in address and provided updated contact information between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2743"
citation: "Virginia HB 2743 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James W. Morefield"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/642ce400-f209-4c07-b893-64745c607279"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2743"
source_hash: "cfeabb20fd986b585d0eba0a281062798b1201d02b9fbcf8285e53560738653f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 2743 (2019) — Child protective services; investigations and family assessments, contact information.
Requires any individual who is the subject of a child abuse or neglect investigation or family assessment to notify the local department of social services prior to changing his place of residence and provide the local department with the address of his new residence. The bill also requires the Department of Social Services to document and report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2020, the number of individuals who notified a local department of social services of a change in address and provided updated contact information between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0436)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2743AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2743ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2743ER)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19103848D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2743)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19103848D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2743E)
## Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- James W. Morefield — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 19103848D `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB2743E
- **2019-02-01** Printed as engrossed 19103848D-E
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Assigned Rehab sub: `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Read third timeg7050 `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 436 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/642ce400-f209-4c07-b893-64745c607279`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).