Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection of records.
Summary
Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection. Provides that a juvenile, the parent, guardian, or other custodian of the juvenile, and counsel for the juvenile may inspect a law-enforcement record concerning such juvenile if (i) no other law or rule of the Supreme Court of Virginia requires or allows withholding of the record; (ii) the parent, guardian, or other custodian requesting the record is not a suspect, offender, or person of interest in the record; and (iii) any identifying information of any other involved juveniles is redacted. This bill is identical to SB 149.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Feb 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Signed Apr 11, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Feb 28, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2022
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 28, 2022
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Amendments
3
Apr 11, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Mar 2, 2022
Introduced
Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 28, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 28, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 28, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Feb 28, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 23, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2022
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103598D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jeion Ward
DDemocratic
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