---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection of records."
description: "Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection. Provides that a juvenile, the parent, guardian, or other custodian of the juvenile, and counsel for the juvenile may inspect a law-enforcement record concerning such juvenile if (i) no other law or rule of the Supreme Court of Virginia requires or allows withholding of the record; (ii) the parent, guardian, or other custodian requesting the record is not a suspect, offender, or person of interest in the record; and (iii) any identifying information of any other involved juveniles is redacted. This bill is identical to SB 149."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 731"
citation: "Virginia HB 731 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeion A. Ward"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45237d1c-6eb3-44a6-82a5-95100b67f81e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB731"
source_hash: "c911e57629d66b8436d29e4e186aeb3bdd4ced7fdb6811f2cd0f60b42fe98159"
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 731 (2022) — Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection of records.

Juvenile law-enforcement records; inspection. Provides that a juvenile, the parent, guardian, or other custodian of the juvenile, and counsel for the juvenile may inspect a law-enforcement record concerning such juvenile if (i) no other law or rule of the Supreme Court of Virginia requires or allows withholding of the record; (ii) the parent, guardian, or other custodian requesting the record is not a suspect, offender, or person of interest in the record; and (iii) any identifying information of any other involved juveniles is redacted. This bill is identical to SB 149.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0455** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0455)
2. **HB731ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB731ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103598D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB731)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeion A. Ward — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103598D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB731)
- **2022-02-03** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-07** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-14** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-02-28** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-28** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2022-02-28** Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB731ER)
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45237d1c-6eb3-44a6-82a5-95100b67f81e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).