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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 SB 1406.
Introduced
Jan 6, 2025
Last Action
Mar 21, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 6 co
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)
Approved by Governor-Chapter 200 (Effective 07/01/25)
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
Signed by President
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1777ER)
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1777)
Enrolled
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Read third time
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
Passed by for the day
Rules suspended
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (11-Y 0-N)
Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
Read second time and engrossed
Read first time
Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
Assigned sub: Social Services
Referred from General Laws and referred to Health and Human Services (Voice Vote)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1777)
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102551D
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Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)
Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.