---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection of records."
description: "Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection. Provides that a juvenile, the parent, guardian, or other custodian of the juvenile, and counsel for the juvenile may inspect a law-enforcement record concerning such juvenile if (i) no other law or rule of the Supreme Court of Virginia requires or allows withholding of the record; (ii) the parent, guardian, or other custodian requesting the record is not a suspect, offender, or person of interest in the record; and (iii) any identifying information of any other involved juveniles is redacted. This bill is identical to HB 731."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 149"
citation: "Virginia SB 149 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas K. Norment, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-09"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e42abb8a-351d-4660-968f-a2ea9c1e7de6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB149"
source_hash: "75469ddace643d90844b5ebce44ed16358fe468280e8fb153b7c2e61ef7804be"
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 149 (2022) — Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection of records.

Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection. Provides that a juvenile, the parent, guardian, or other custodian of the juvenile, and counsel for the juvenile may inspect a law-enforcement record concerning such juvenile if (i) no other law or rule of the Supreme Court of Virginia requires or allows withholding of the record; (ii) the parent, guardian, or other custodian requesting the record is not a suspect, offender, or person of interest in the record; and (iii) any identifying information of any other involved juveniles is redacted. This bill is identical to HB 731.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0456** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0456)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103601D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB149)
3. **SB149ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB149ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — primary (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103601D `introduction`
- **2022-01-09** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Amendment by Delegate Bell agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-02-24** Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 456 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e42abb8a-351d-4660-968f-a2ea9c1e7de6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).