Virginia Senate Bill 1139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on February 19 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-02-19 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Post-adoption contact and communication agreements. Provides that a local board of social services or child welfare agency required to file a petition for a permanency planning hearing may inform the birth parents and shall inform the adoptive parents that they may enter into enter into a post-adoption contact and communication agreement. The bill further provides that such local board of social services or child welfare agency shall inform the child if he is 14 years of age or older that he may consent to such an agreement. This bill is identical to HB 1728.

Post-adoption contact & communication agreements; authority to enter into agreements.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2019-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-06 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N) (Y: 17 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-22 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-19		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065)
2019-02-19		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 65 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-14		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
2019-02-14	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
2019-02-13	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-12	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-12	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1139ER)
2019-02-12	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-11	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	House	Read third time
2019-02-08	House	Read second time
2019-02-06	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N)
2019-01-29	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-29	House	Read first time
2019-01-29	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-01-24	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-23	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1139S1
2019-01-23	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19105184D-S1
2019-01-23	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-01-23	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-22	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2019-01-21	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19105184D-S1
2019-01-21	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2018-12-30	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-12-30	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103550D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	283.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	1220.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	1220.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1139
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1139+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1139S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1139ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0065+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0098+SB1139
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0134SB1139+SB1139
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0158SB1139+SB1139
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H08V0308+SB1139
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2595+SB1139