---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principals."
description: "Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosuresto school principals. Changes from discretionary to mandatorythat the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriffof a county disclose to a school principal all instances where ajuvenile at the principal's school has been charged with a violentjuvenile felony, an arson offense, or a concealed weapon offenseand adds an offense that requires a juvenile intake officer to makea report with the school division superintendent to the list of suchinstances that must be disclosed to a school principal for the protectionof the juvenile, his fellow students, and school personnel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 649"
citation: "Virginia SB 649 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d37380c8-8f23-400d-a27f-2616e8ece271"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB649"
source_hash: "6811d4ab7bbbd83d4f6bf1f4781eef438e897ba79a6d5eec0a5084327b82e361"
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 649 (2022) — Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principals.

Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosuresto school principals. Changes from discretionary to mandatorythat the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriffof a county disclose to a school principal all instances where ajuvenile at the principal's school has been charged with a violentjuvenile felony, an arson offense, or a concealed weapon offenseand adds an offense that requires a juvenile intake officer to makea report with the school division superintendent to the list of suchinstances that must be disclosed to a school principal for the protectionof the juvenile, his fellow students, and school personnel.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0542** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0542)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 22103350D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB649)
3. **SB649ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB649ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) — **4–3** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 5-N) — **15–5** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (89-Y 9-N) — **88–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 22103350D `introduction`
- **2022-01-18** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB649)
- **2022-02-09** Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-23** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N)
- **2022-03-07** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed House (89-Y 9-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** VOTE: Passage (89-Y 9-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB649ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 542 (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/d37380c8-8f23-400d-a27f-2616e8ece271`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).