---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minor's records; access to records stored or accessible from a secure website."
description: "Access to minor's records; records stored or accessible from 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 any such records that are stored in or accessible from a secure website. This bill is identical to HB 1593."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 846"
citation: "Virginia SB 846 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christie New Craig"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 39
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-02"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69dfcca2-ee37-49d5-95aa-2cc906ecde6a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB846"
source_hash: "0bfec3c12270010cc3efcbc7f72c33804ebd96aeda4f5a4191a53be17a5f4c76"
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 846 (2025) — Minor's records; access to records stored or accessible from a secure website.

Access to minor's records; records stored or accessible from 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 any such records that are stored in or accessible from a secure website. This bill is identical to HB 1593.

## 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/1013594.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071394.PDF)
3. **Conference Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064458.HTML)
4. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1020926.PDF)
5. **Courts of Justice Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1042520.HTML)
6. **House Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1045577.HTML)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068952.PDF)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- House Amendment rejected by Senate (1-Y 38-N) — **1–38** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House with amendment (90-Y 5-N) — **90–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christie New Craig — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102899D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15** Committee substitute printed 25105071D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-20** Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-02-10** Passed House with amendment (90-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** House Amendment rejected by Senate (1-Y 38-N) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-02-13** House insisted on amendment
- **2025-02-13** House requested conference committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-17** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2025-02-17** Senators: Craig, Favola, Surovell
- **2025-02-18** Conferees appointed by House
- **2025-02-18** Delegates: Hernandez, Reaser, Kent
- **2025-02-20** Amended by conference committee
- **2025-02-20** Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB846ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69dfcca2-ee37-49d5-95aa-2cc906ecde6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).