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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sex Offenders and Crimes Against Minors Registry; removal of name from Registry."
+description: "Provides that the requirement that a person required to register with the Sex Offenders and Crimes Against Minors Registry who was convicted of certain crimes involving child pornography or carnal knowledge of a minor in juvenile custody under Virginia wait 25 years before being entitled to file a petition for removal of his name or information from the Registry also applies to a person convicted of similar offenses under the laws of any foreign country, the United States, or a political subdivision of either."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 902"
+citation: "Virginia HB 902 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commonwealth Public Safety", "Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Minors"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas J. Freitas"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a643d54f-3df1-465a-bb28-9a5b25d2991a"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB902"
+source_hash: "c663186d025f470e5c6df88410092f60aa13df3ebe636d7fb37b01c341b35197"
+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 902 (2018) — Sex Offenders and Crimes Against Minors Registry; removal of name from Registry.
+
+Provides that the requirement that a person required to register with the Sex Offenders and Crimes Against Minors Registry who was convicted of certain crimes involving child pornography or carnal knowledge of a minor in juvenile custody under Virginia wait 25 years before being entitled to file a petition for removal of his name or information from the Registry also applies to a person convicted of similar offenses under the laws of any foreign country, the United States, or a political subdivision of either.
+
+## 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 (HB902ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB902ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101071D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB902)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nicholas J. Freitas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101071D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **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 68 (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/a643d54f-3df1-465a-bb28-9a5b25d2991a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+