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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal history record information; discovery."
+description: "Provides that laws precluding dissemination of a person's criminal history record information do not preclude dissemination made pursuant to the rules of court for obtaining discovery or for review by the court."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 988"
+citation: "Virginia HB 988 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure", "Criminal Procedure"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C. Todd Gilbert"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-02-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6999f017-ad5d-49bb-ba64-0aff4df2450e"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB988"
+source_hash: "499f74b56645c047c3efe17d7442e218a3d23b54fe942907f73275a7994f9ab9"
+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 988 (2018) — Criminal history record information; discovery.
+
+Provides that laws precluding dissemination of a person's criminal history record information do not preclude dissemination made pursuant to the rules of court for obtaining discovery or for review by the court.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0049)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB988ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB988ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102815D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB988)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C. Todd Gilbert — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102815D `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`
+- **2018-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2018-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2018-02-16** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-02-16** Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
+- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
+- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 49 (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/6999f017-ad5d-49bb-ba64-0aff4df2450e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+