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type: "Bill"
title: "FOIA; record and meeting exclusions for multidisciplinary child abuse teams."
description: "FOIA; record and meeting exclusions for multidisciplinary child abuse teams."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1971"
citation: "Virginia HB 1971 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Consumer Protection", "Crimes and Offenses Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James P. \"Jimmie\" Massie, III"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73382fbf-c713-4fe1-a616-72549a85bb98"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1971"
source_hash: "a4636d3427cafd2b52b546f3fca81120de577cb25ba7cbd83e4d11ea1786a6cc"
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 1971 (2017) — FOIA; record and meeting exclusions for multidisciplinary child abuse teams.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0587)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1971ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1971ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103795D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1971)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- James P. "Jimmie" Massie, III — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103795D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned GL&T sub: #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 587 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73382fbf-c713-4fe1-a616-72549a85bb98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).