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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Public Records Act; confidentiality of certain archived records."
+description: "Virginia Public Records Act; confidentiality of certain archived records."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1844"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1844 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-10"
+last_action: "2023-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cf14321-573e-4908-901a-fa62b2a4e9f2"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1844"
+source_hash: "dd5b75cfe0dcfeb4586690091fe6cd5ed4eae5085c9b90b251b5ba785c46bd75"
+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 1844 (2023) — Virginia Public Records Act; confidentiality of certain archived records.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0126** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0126)
+2. **HB1844ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1844ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101170D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1844)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws (15-Y 7-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (66-Y 34-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101170D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1844)
+- **2023-01-18** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)
+- **2023-01-26** Reported from General Laws (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-01** Passed by temporarily
+- **2023-02-01** Read third time and passed House (66-Y 34-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-01** VOTE: Passage (66-Y 34-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-02-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1844ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1844ER)
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 126 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0cf14321-573e-4908-901a-fa62b2a4e9f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+