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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Admission to bail; human trafficking."
+description: "Adds the charges of (i) taking or detaining a person for the purposes of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, (ii) receiving money from procuring or placing a person in a house of prostitution or forced labor, (iii) receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute, and (iv) commercial sex trafficking to the list of crimes for which there is a rebuttable presumption against admission to bail."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1260"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1260 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Criminal Procedure"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael P. Mullin"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-10"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ec3642b-5542-4184-a295-193d50556408"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1260"
+source_hash: "77556998b981e8b45c35e2b7fd6366b18dc8658146fe78f43a3d689896a28fc6"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1260 (2018) — Admission to bail; human trafficking.
+
+Adds the charges of (i) taking or detaining a person for the purposes of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, (ii) receiving money from procuring or placing a person in a house of prostitution or forced labor, (iii) receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute, and (iv) commercial sex trafficking to the list of crimes for which there is a rebuttable presumption against admission to bail.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1260ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1260ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102345D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1260)
+3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18102345D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1260E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael P. Mullin — primary (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102345D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-01** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2018-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB1260E
+- **2018-02-01** Printed as engrossed 18102345D-E
+- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 71 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ec3642b-5542-4184-a295-193d50556408`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+