---
type: "Bill"
title: "Victims of crime; right to nondisclosure of certain information."
description: "Requires that written consent provided by the victim's next of kin to law enforcement is necessary, if the victim is a minor, before a law-enforcement agency may disclose any information that identifies the victim of a crime that resulted in the victim's death."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2240"
citation: "Virginia HB 2240 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure", "Minors", "Police"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson H. Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb81f9be-99a7-4319-bd71-441e00c06cb4"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2240"
source_hash: "2b76aa1d3cb08fe2d3615972a5731541a1ddc66e3cf177fd8567a7ab29016808"
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 2240 (2017) — Victims of crime; right to nondisclosure of certain information.

Requires that written consent provided by the victim's next of kin to law enforcement is necessary, if the victim is a minor, before a law-enforcement agency may disclose any information that identifies the victim of a crime that resulted in the victim's death.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0500)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2240ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2240ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104667D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2240H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102576D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2240)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **30–10** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **98–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **11–4** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102576D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 17104667D-H1
- **2017-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2240H1
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-15** Passed by temporarily
- **2017-02-15** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-17** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-17** Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N)
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 500 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb81f9be-99a7-4319-bd71-441e00c06cb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).