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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court."
+description: "Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 435"
+citation: "Virginia HB 435 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan \"Jed\" Arnold"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92cf856d-6b39-43b7-91c7-ecba91b5fc4b"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB435"
+source_hash: "e38c3b5dee5bb230c7cb4495ee9bb2a2a5736e14568b3a48364bd89092fd2ef0"
+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 435 (2024) — Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court.
+
+Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0190** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0190)
+2. **HB435ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB435ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101626D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB435)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101626D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-17** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB435)
+- **2024-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-01-30** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-01** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-01** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2024-02-09** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-28** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB435ER) `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB435ER)
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92cf856d-6b39-43b7-91c7-ecba91b5fc4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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