---
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: "SB 184"
citation: "Virginia SB 184 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-12-29"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00443419-9b14-47e1-83dc-108a51a83918"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB184"
source_hash: "79044c67142e20bdfe1cbefb8f59e85ce0a48cbe1c6dc2dae6999304eeb9e531"
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 184 (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. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB184ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB184ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101321D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB184)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **26–14** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **8–6** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Charles W. Carrico, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101321D `introduction`
- **2017-12-29** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 193 (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/00443419-9b14-47e1-83dc-108a51a83918`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).