---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human trafficking; continuing education required for biennial renewal of licensure."
description: "Human trafficking; continuing education required for biennial renewal of licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1426"
citation: "Virginia HB 1426 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tata"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-14"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7a336f3-8488-4fd3-bec7-9151e3968765"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1426"
source_hash: "4f4f17953478b694eda0fa6b67b589e1044fba7638a409eb7ad41d6263dbdbf3"
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 1426 (2023) — Human trafficking; continuing education required for biennial renewal of licensure.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0418** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0418)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23104888D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1426H1)
3. **HB1426ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1426ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100377D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1426)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tata — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100377D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-14** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB1426)
- **2023-01-26** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Committee substitute printed 23104888D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB1426H1)
- **2023-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 23104888D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1426H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1426ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB1426ER)
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate reprinted (HB1426ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 418 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7a336f3-8488-4fd3-bec7-9151e3968765`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).