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type: "Bill"
title: "Applicants for public assistance; contact information."
description: "Requires local departments of social services to collect from every applicant for public assistance alternative contact information, such as the applicant's email address and cell phone number, and the applicant's preferred method of contact, including direct mail, email, text message, or phone call. Under current law, local departments of social services are required to obtain only the applicant's best available address and telephone number."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1122"
citation: "Virginia SB 1122 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23ceef4e-ceca-448a-847d-cac369e5a91e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1122"
source_hash: "49ca7970204950a70c20b49007ecebed448bbb81fbcf76b97a4858e7981f6ef5"
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 1122 (2017) — Applicants for public assistance; contact information.
Requires local departments of social services to collect from every applicant for public assistance alternative contact information, such as the applicant's email address and cell phone number, and the applicant's preferred method of contact, including direct mail, email, text message, or phone call. Under current law, local departments of social services are required to obtain only the applicant's best available address and telephone number.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0472)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1122ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1122ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102803D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1122)
## Votes
- Reported from Appropriations — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102803D `introduction`
- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 472 (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/23ceef4e-ceca-448a-847d-cac369e5a91e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).