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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Application for change of name; person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; victim notification."
+description: "Application for change of name; person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; victim notification. Requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to make a reasonable effort to notify the victim of an offense for which a person is required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry or such victim's immediate family member if such victim has died when such registrant applies for a change of name with the court. This bill is identical to SB 1157."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1846"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1846 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan \"Jed\" Arnold"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-06"
+last_action: "2025-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97875d42-58fd-422c-968b-a6fff291ad17"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1846"
+source_hash: "29ff314921634c8e353a43e2f2901c3cbc15a56d3f560500821621b2562e99f5"
+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 1846 (2025) — Application for change of name; person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; victim notification.
+
+Application for change of name; person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; victim notification. Requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to make a reasonable effort to notify the victim of an offense for which a person is required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry or such victim's immediate family member if such victim has died when such registrant applies for a change of name with the court. This bill is identical to SB 1157.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013432.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072004.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046249.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (95-Y 0-N) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — primary (person)
+- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100605D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-17** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2025-01-24** Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-30** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-01-31** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-05** Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-07** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-10** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-12** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-12** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1846ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-15** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97875d42-58fd-422c-968b-a6fff291ad17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+