---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court."
description: "Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 435"
citation: "Virginia HB 435 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan \"Jed\" Arnold"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92cf856d-6b39-43b7-91c7-ecba91b5fc4b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB435"
source_hash: "e38c3b5dee5bb230c7cb4495ee9bb2a2a5736e14568b3a48364bd89092fd2ef0"
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 435 (2024) — Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court.

Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0190** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0190)
2. **HB435ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB435ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101626D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB435)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101626D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB435)
- **2024-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-30** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2024-02-09** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB435ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB435ER)
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92cf856d-6b39-43b7-91c7-ecba91b5fc4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).