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| Bill | Victims of crime; right to nondisclosure of certain information. | Requires that written consent provided by the victim's next of kin to law enforcement is necessary, if the victim is a minor, before a law-enforcement agency may disclose any information that identifies the victim of a crime that resulted in the victim's death. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 2240 | Virginia HB 2240 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 2240 (2017) — Victims of crime; right to nondisclosure of certain information.
Requires that written consent provided by the victim's next of kin to law enforcement is necessary, if the victim is a minor, before a law-enforcement agency may disclose any information that identifies the victim of a crime that resulted in the victim's death.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2240ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104667D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102576D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — 30–10 (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — 98–1 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 11–4 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102576D
introduction - 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-01-16 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
referral-committee - 2017-01-31 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 17104667D-H1
- 2017-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2240H1
- 2017-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-02-15 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-15 Reading of amendment waived
- 2017-02-15 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-02-15 Passed by temporarily
- 2017-02-15 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2017-02-17 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-17 Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N)
- 2017-02-21 Enrolled
- 2017-02-21 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-21 Signed by President
- 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 500 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb81f9be-99a7-4319-bd71-441e00c06cb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).