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type: "Bill"
title: "Child in need of services; expands definition."
description: "Child in need of services; definition. Expands the definition of a \"child in need of services\" for purposes of juvenile and domestic relations district courts to include a child who remains away from, deserts, or abandons his family or lawful custodian during one occasion and is demonstratively at risk of coercion, exploitation, abuse, or manipulation or has been lured from his parent or lawful custodian by means of trickery or misrepresentation or under false pretenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2260"
citation: "Virginia HB 2260 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2cba331c-80a7-4be7-b14c-cfbf024bc5ac"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2260"
source_hash: "d71ff8c5db98da6bbc0da40ba59e7dbc95b757f0f7d836042366fb0d1343484d"
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 2260 (2025) — Child in need of services; expands definition.
Child in need of services; definition. Expands the definition of a "child in need of services" for purposes of juvenile and domestic relations district courts to include a child who remains away from, deserts, or abandons his family or lawful custodian during one occasion and is demonstratively at risk of coercion, exploitation, abuse, or manipulation or has been lured from his parent or lawful custodian by means of trickery or misrepresentation or under false pretenses.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1016981.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1070962.PDF)
3. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032948.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057206.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101869D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Committee substitute printed 25106325D-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 (HB2260)
- **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** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **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 (HB2260ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2260)
- **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`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 31 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2cba331c-80a7-4be7-b14c-cfbf024bc5ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).