---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child abuse and neglect; founded reports regarding former school employees."
description: "Requires local departments of social services to notify the appropriate school board without delay if the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect was, at the time of the investigation or the conduct that led to the report, an employee of a school division located within the Commonwealth. Currently, such reporting is only required if the subject of the complaint is an employee of a school division at the time the complaint is determined to be founded."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 150"
citation: "Virginia HB 150 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-12-20"
last_action: "2018-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db7f7dd4-cfb5-47b2-982e-81e83f62b23b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB150"
source_hash: "b7c4b6728ee3328d637f9f89adf110811c138e4a562938f046ca1e2a7cbf9610"
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 150 (2018) — Child abuse and neglect; founded reports regarding former school employees.

Requires local departments of social services to notify the appropriate school board without delay if the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect was, at the time of the investigation or the conduct that led to the report, an employee of a school division located within the Commonwealth. Currently, such reporting is only required if the subject of the complaint is an employee of a school division at the time the complaint is determined to be founded.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0003)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB150ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB150ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101331D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB150)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **34–6** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **35–5** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **11–4** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-20** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101331D `introduction`
- **2017-12-20** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-25** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Enrolled
- **2018-02-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-09** Signed by President
- **2018-02-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 02/12/18
- **2018-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2018
- **2018-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 3 (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/db7f7dd4-cfb5-47b2-982e-81e83f62b23b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).