---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child care; background checks."
description: "Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the past five years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1277"
citation: "Virginia HB 1277 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy J. Laufer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f56e85c-bd60-4132-8a5b-680caf65be64"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1277"
source_hash: "4b9d9c198392ca78289b2c7687fe04f407488c1ce6c107523b0c093866ff4dab"
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 1277 (2024) — Child care; background checks.

Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the past five years.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0477** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0477)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106132D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1277H1)
3. **HB1277ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1277ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102756D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1277)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 1-N) — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy J. Laufer — primary (person)
- Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102756D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1277)
- **2024-01-23** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2024-01-29** Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Committee substitute printed 24106132D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB1277H1)
- **2024-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 24106132D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1277H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1277ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-03** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB1277ER)
- **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`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f56e85c-bd60-4132-8a5b-680caf65be64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).