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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Serv."
+description: "Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Serv."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1859"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1859 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Webert"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2023-01-10"
+last_action: "2023-03-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0faa3557-ad3b-4613-99e8-ef0099e92627"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1859"
+source_hash: "2f89ae1a387c17c055774f26b4e597d4f4bafcc0b2743c9956ff1995ffbda9b0"
+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 1859 (2023) — Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Serv.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0040** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0040)
+2. **HB1859ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1859ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104019D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1859)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: (97-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Webert — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104019D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1859)
+- **2023-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-20** Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-26** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-26** VOTE: (97-Y 1-N)
+- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-01-27** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-08** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-14** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-15** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2023-02-15** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2023-02-15** Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-17** Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-17** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-22** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1859ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1859ER)
+- **2023-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
+- **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`
+- **2023-03-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 40 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-17** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0faa3557-ad3b-4613-99e8-ef0099e92627`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+