---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abduction; reports to school division superintendents."
description: "Abduction; reports to school division superintendents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 292"
citation: "Virginia HB 292 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Criminal Procedure", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher E. Collins"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e47c169-44cd-4592-ac98-19fb720283a3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB292"
source_hash: "ef7cf00d89cc7a42c9bef8ddae25a85ca35d260011cbea6d43e07c4146519031"
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 292 (2018) — Abduction; reports to school division superintendents.

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB292ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB292ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102918D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB292)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **17–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102918D `introduction`
- **2018-01-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (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/7e47c169-44cd-4592-ac98-19fb720283a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).