republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-873.md

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Bill	Child care providers; criminal history background check, sunset and contingency.	Extends from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2020, the expiration date and contingency on the requirement that the following individuals undergo fingerprint-based national criminal history background checks: (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 agents of such applicants 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 of 2014, 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. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 873	Virginia HB 873 (2018)	bill	Civil Remedies and Procedure Minors	enacted	Robert D. Orrock, Sr.	2	15	8	2018-01-09	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/6b7b73dc-94b3-4cb2-adde-2afcb963590f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB873	e70b1b240b6a5fe79ad9cad18498cb99ab85fba0129c08b15512872f619c7abc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 873 (2018) — Child care providers; criminal history background check, sunset and contingency.

Extends from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2020, the expiration date and contingency on the requirement that the following individuals undergo fingerprint-based national criminal history background checks: (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 agents of such applicants 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 of 2014, 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. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB873ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101779D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101779D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2018-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-09 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-12 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-13 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-22 Enrolled
• 2018-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-23 Signed by President
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
• 2018-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 146 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b7b73dc-94b3-4cb2-adde-2afcb963590f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).