VA SB1406 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Passed on March 21 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-03-21 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Passed on March 21 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-03-21 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
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.
Title
Children's Ombudsman, Office of the; foster youth's right to receive information.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-02-14 - House - Passed House (96-Y 0-N) (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2025-02-11 - House - Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2025-02-04 - Senate - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-02-04 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-03 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-31 - Senate - Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - Senate - Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-11 - House - Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2025-02-04 - Senate - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-02-04 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-03 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-31 - Senate - Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - Senate - Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-21 | Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) | |
| 2025-03-21 | Approved by Governor-Chapter 223 (Effective 07/01/25) | |
| 2025-03-03 | Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 | |
| 2025-03-03 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 |
| 2025-02-20 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2025-02-18 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2025-02-18 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1406) |
| 2025-02-18 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1406ER) |
| 2025-02-18 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2025-02-14 | House | Passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-14 | House | Read third time |
| 2025-02-13 | House | Read second time |
| 2025-02-11 | House | Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-07 | House | Referred to Committee on General Laws |
| 2025-02-07 | House | Read first time |
| 2025-02-07 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2025-02-04 | Senate | Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-04 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-04 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-02-04 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2025-02-03 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-02-03 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-03 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-15 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1406) |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Presented and ordered printed 25103787D |
