---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minor's records; access to records stored or accessible from a secure website."
description: "Access to minor's records; records contained in or made available through secure website. Specifies that for the purposes of allowing a parent to access the academic or health records of such parent's minor child such access includes access to such records that are stored in or accessible from a secure website. This bill is identical to SB 846."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1593"
citation: "Virginia HB 1593 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hillary Pugh Kent"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-02"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/101ab248-4293-4351-8c30-e7f06587b976"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1593"
source_hash: "7de048d067ac9a3761583b67cb89d4d042420f56b8e4c389b951e583433e05b7"
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 1593 (2025) — Minor's records; access to records stored or accessible from a secure website.

Access to minor's records; records contained in or made available through secure website. Specifies that for the purposes of allowing a parent to access the academic or health records of such parent's minor child such access includes access to such records that are stored in or accessible from a secure website. This bill is identical to SB 846.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012187.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071322.PDF)
3. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024046.PDF)
4. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046069.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1054413.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate substitute agreed to by House (Y-95 N-1 A-0) — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (92-Y 4-N) — **92–4** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hillary Pugh Kent — primary (person)
- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100838D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1593)
- **2025-01-14** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-22** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1593)
- **2025-01-24** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Committee substitute printed 25105491D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29** Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-31** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Committee substitute printed 25107091D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1593)
- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-12** Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-12** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Senate substitute agreed to by House (Y-95 N-1 A-0) `substitution`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1593ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1593)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 119 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0119)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/101ab248-4293-4351-8c30-e7f06587b976`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).