---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minors; alternative facility of temporary detention."
description: "Establishes the same procedure for transferring custody of a minor who is the subject of a temporary detention order from one facility to another facility that already exists for transferring custody of adults."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1355"
citation: "Virginia HB 1355 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dab832d7-fbc7-46f4-aa8f-b3619768c6c5"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1355"
source_hash: "15f2a9afdb6948b77137f3e700eb8de4b53169dfea9f8fbc62c12901a110dac4"
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 1355 (2018) — Minors; alternative facility of temporary detention.

Establishes the same procedure for transferring custody of a minor who is the subject of a temporary detention order from one facility to another facility that already exists for transferring custody of adults.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0020)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1355ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1355ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18104118D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1355)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Presented and ordered printed 18104118D `introduction`
- **2018-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-16** Enrolled
- **2018-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-19** Signed by President
- **2018-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2018
- **2018-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 20 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dab832d7-fbc7-46f4-aa8f-b3619768c6c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).