VA SB1261 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Enrolled on February 17 2025 - 75% progression
Action: 2025-02-20 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]
Status: Enrolled on February 17 2025 - 75% progression
Action: 2025-02-20 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]
Summary
Fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs of juveniles. Requires law-enforcement officers to obtain, electronically when possible, fingerprints, palm prints with accompanying distal prints, if available, and photographs of any juvenile taken into custody and charged with a delinquent act. The bill also requires such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be both filed with the Central Criminal Records Exchange and submitted electronically, when possible, to the State Police to be maintained in a confidential and secure area within the system in which the record is maintained that is inaccessible during routine use of such system. The bill further requires any electronic record of such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be destroyed as soon as possible after the State Police have been notified that a petition or warrant has not been filed against the juvenile. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to HB 2472.
Title
Juveniles; fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs, effective date.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-02-12 - Senate - House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-10 - House - Passed House with substitute (66-Y 29-N) (Y: 66 N: 29 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2025-02-05 - House - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 3-N) (Y: 19 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-23 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-21 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-20 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-10 - House - Passed House with substitute (66-Y 29-N) (Y: 66 N: 29 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2025-02-05 - House - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 3-N) (Y: 19 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-23 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-21 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-20 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-20 | Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 | |
| 2025-02-20 | House | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 |
| 2025-02-20 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2025-02-18 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261) |
| 2025-02-17 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2025-02-17 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1261ER) |
| 2025-02-17 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2025-02-12 | Senate | House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-12 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261) |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Passed House with substitute (66-Y 29-N) |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Read third time |
| 2025-02-07 | House | Read second time |
| 2025-02-05 | House | Committee substitute printed 25106790D-H1 |
| 2025-02-05 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 3-N) |
| 2025-02-05 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261) |
| 2025-02-04 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-02-04 | House | Read first time |
| 2025-02-04 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Printed as engrossed 25103867D-E |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1261E |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Reading of amendment waived |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103867D |
