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type: "Bill"
title: "Child care providers; criminal history background check, repeals sunset."
description: "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"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 121"
citation: "Virginia SB 121 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer T. Wexton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-18"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b715708c-2af2-4b2b-87cf-e9fc6eabfbbb"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB121"
source_hash: "e8dc576f7953860ea61fec020be00eae7d3c55413aee313925a939cdbf6ff625"
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 121 (2018) — Child care providers; criminal history background check, repeals sunset.
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: Committee substitute printed 18107247D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB121H1)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB121ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB121ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100999D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB121)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 18100999D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB121E)
## Votes
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- House substitute agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Jennifer T. Wexton — primary (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100999D `introduction`
- **2017-12-18** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Reading of amendments waived
- **2018-01-16** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-01-16** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB121E
- **2018-01-16** Printed as engrossed 18100999D-E
- **2018-01-17** Passed by for the day
- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 18107247D-H1
- **2018-02-20** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB121H1
- **2018-02-20** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Title replaced 18107247D-H1
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 278 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b715708c-2af2-4b2b-87cf-e9fc6eabfbbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).