---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil cases; motion for the disclosure of expunged police and court records."
description: "Civil cases; motion for the disclosure of expunged police and court records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1413"
citation: "Virginia SB 1413 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norment"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4494b664-ab17-4b8b-b02b-a3201e0bb17d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1413"
source_hash: "8e1f1f23e2d95bc2df06db3d6fc4f046814877f74bc113d0ead8f0c89543878f"
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 1413 (2023) — Civil cases; motion for the disclosure of expunged police and court records.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0465** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0465)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23106169D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1413S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103255D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1413)
4. **SB1413ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1413ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (54-Y 42-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 9-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Norment — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103255D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB1413)
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Committee substitute printed 23106169D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1413S1)
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 23106169D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1413S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-11** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
- **2023-02-20** Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Passed House (54-Y 42-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** VOTE: Passage (54-Y 42-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1413ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB1413ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 465 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4494b664-ab17-4b8b-b02b-a3201e0bb17d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).