republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1506.md

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Bill	Applicant Fingerprint Database; Federal Bureau of Investigation records.	Authorizes the Department of State Police to submit fingerprints and accompanying records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to be advised through the FBI's Next Generation Identification Rap Back service when an individual subject to a criminal background check as a condition of licensure, certification, employment, or volunteer service with an agency or entity is arrested for, or convicted of, a criminal offense not reported to the Department that would disqualify that individual from such licensure, certification, employment, or volunteer service.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1506	Virginia SB 1506 (2017)	bill	Police State	enacted	John A. Cosgrove, Jr.	3	16	6	2017-01-18	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/8b5c028a-16fb-49d4-9bc0-a3131bec8d2a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1506	8478e05d0c1c800632f9a2b3f7cd8b2ee7eb78bb38f4d089852bb3273ce9bc1b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1506 (2017) — Applicant Fingerprint Database; Federal Bureau of Investigation records.

Authorizes the Department of State Police to submit fingerprints and accompanying records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to be advised through the FBI's Next Generation Identification Rap Back service when an individual subject to a criminal background check as a condition of licensure, certification, employment, or volunteer service with an agency or entity is arrested for, or convicted of, a criminal offense not reported to the Department that would disqualify that individual from such licensure, certification, employment, or volunteer service.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1506ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17101608D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice — 10–3 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House — 87–4 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety — 18–4 (pass) · legislature
• Rereferred from Transportation — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 32–8 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-18 Presented and ordered printed 17101608D introduction
• 2017-01-18 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Rereferred to Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-09 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-09 Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety referral-committee
• 2017-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-21 Passed House (87-Y 4-N) passage
• 2017-02-24 Enrolled
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 524 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b5c028a-16fb-49d4-9bc0-a3131bec8d2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).