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type: "Bill"
title: "Juveniles; places of confinement."
description: "Provides that when juveniles who are determined by the court to be a threat to the security or safety of other juveniles detained in a juvenile secure facility are transferred to or confined to a jail or other facility for the detention of adults, such adult-detention facility must be approved by the State Board of Corrections for the detention of juveniles. The bill removes an existing provision that such juveniles need not be separated and removed from the adult detainees when confined with adults. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "Virginia SB 52 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Courts Not of Record", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-11-27"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d142dee0-423a-4f25-adff-2c1c1404323b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB52"
source_hash: "2b676f8f5021c8413c4b04384b07e051a95bd57b1891e798319558a0bfb12cf7"
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 52 (2018) — Juveniles; places of confinement.
Provides that when juveniles who are determined by the court to be a threat to the security or safety of other juveniles detained in a juvenile secure facility are transferred to or confined to a jail or other facility for the detention of adults, such adult-detention facility must be approved by the State Board of Corrections for the detention of juveniles. The bill removes an existing provision that such juveniles need not be separated and removed from the adult detainees when confined with adults. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB52ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB52ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100976D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB52)
## Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **170** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-11-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100976D `introduction`
- **2017-11-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** 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 73 (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/d142dee0-423a-4f25-adff-2c1c1404323b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).