---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assisted living facilities and adult day care centers; background checks."
description: "Assisted living facilities and adult day care centers; background checks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1434"
citation: "Virginia SB 1434 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer T. Wexton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5de52f2-d167-479d-9791-0beb5bde84d2"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1434"
source_hash: "ced5513659ccbe4bdc1798d017ab1290cd53126e62285387f29c5712629db524"
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 SB 1434 (2017) — Assisted living facilities and adult day care centers; background checks.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0201)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1434ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1434ER)
3. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103366D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1434)

## Votes

- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **95–3** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jennifer T. Wexton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 17103366D `introduction`
- **2017-01-13** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-14** Passed House (95-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (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/c5de52f2-d167-479d-9791-0beb5bde84d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).