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 HB 731.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Jan 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 9, 2022
Signed Apr 11, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Jan 25, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 24, 2022
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Jan 25, 2022
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
7
Committee
5
Amendments
3
Apr 11, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 456 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Feb 28, 2022
Introduced
House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 24, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Feb 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
Amendment by Delegate Bell agreed to
lower
Feb 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 21, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 21, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 25, 2022
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 19, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 9, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 9, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103601D
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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