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Bill Child care providers; criminal history background check; penalty. Requires the following individuals to undergo a fingerprint-based national criminal history background check: (i) applicants for employment by, employees of, applicants to serve as volunteers with, and volunteers with any licensed family day system, child day center exempt from licensure pursuant to § 63.2-1716, registered family day home, or family day home approved by a family day system; (ii) applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, or approval as a family day home by a family day system, as well as their agents and any adult living in such family day home; and (iii) individuals who apply for or enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services under which a child day center, family day home, or child day program will provide child care services funded by the Child Care and Development Block Grant, as well as the applicant's current or prospective employees and volunteers, agents, and any adult living in the child day center or family day home. The bill also mandates that all background checks required pursuant to §§ 63.2-1720.1 and 63.2-1721.1 be completed by September 30, 2017, or by the date specified on any federal waiver obtained by the Commonwealth, and every five years thereafter. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2018. The bill further provides that if any provision of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 establishing a corresponding requirement is repealed prior to July 1, 2018, the provision of the bill establishing such requirement shall expire upon the date of such repeal. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 897 Virginia SB 897 (2017)
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Virginia SB 897 (2017) — Child care providers; criminal history background check; penalty.

Requires the following individuals to undergo a fingerprint-based national criminal history background check: (i) applicants for employment by, employees of, applicants to serve as volunteers with, and volunteers with any licensed family day system, child day center exempt from licensure pursuant to § 63.2-1716, registered family day home, or family day home approved by a family day system; (ii) applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, or approval as a family day home by a family day system, as well as their agents and any adult living in such family day home; and (iii) individuals who apply for or enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services under which a child day center, family day home, or child day program will provide child care services funded by the Child Care and Development Block Grant, as well as the applicant's current or prospective employees and volunteers, agents, and any adult living in the child day center or family day home. The bill also mandates that all background checks required pursuant to §§ 63.2-1720.1 and 63.2-1721.1 be completed by September 30, 2017, or by the date specified on any federal waiver obtained by the Commonwealth, and every five years thereafter. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2018. The bill further provides that if any provision of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 establishing a corresponding requirement is repealed prior to July 1, 2018, the provision of the bill establishing such requirement shall expire upon the date of such repeal. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB897ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104091D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100203D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • House amendments agreed to by Senate — 380 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Finance — 140 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — 132 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 382 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House with amendments — 7722 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — 166 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Appropriations — 201 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Jennifer T. Wexton — primary (person)
  • Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
  • Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
  • Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2016-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100203D introduction
  • 2016-12-21 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2017-01-13 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
  • 2017-01-27 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2017-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 17104091D-S1
  • 2017-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB897S1
  • 2017-02-02 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-02-02 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-02-02 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
  • 2017-02-14 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-15 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-15 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2017-02-15 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2017-02-15 Passed House with amendments (77-Y 22-N) passage
  • 2017-02-20 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-20 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
  • 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 751 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ad5c7bf-e4b1-49a0-a7f4-007b424605fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).