republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1622.md

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Bill	Child abuse or neglect; out-of-court and recorded statements made by a child.	Provides that, in any civil proceeding involving the alleged abuse or neglect of a child, an out-of-court statement made by a child 14 years of age or younger at the time the statement is offered into evidence describing sexual acts with or on the child by another may be admissible. The bill further provides that in any such civil proceeding, a recorded statement of the alleged victim of the abuse or neglect, made prior to the proceeding, may be admissible if the alleged victim is 14 years of age or younger at the time the statement is offered into evidence. Under current law, such out-of-court and recorded statements may be admissible when the child is 12 years of age or younger.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1622	Virginia HB 1622 (2019)	bill	Minors Welfare (Social Services)	enacted	Christopher E. Collins	6	20	7	2018-10-10	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/c097d416-fb35-48ac-a202-ada772767315	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1622	74d8275ed8f09d30750878dc504561013a0041ca240b1662d20d02e17d91cce4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1622 (2019) — Child abuse or neglect; out-of-court and recorded statements made by a child.

Provides that, in any civil proceeding involving the alleged abuse or neglect of a child, an out-of-court statement made by a child 14 years of age or younger at the time the statement is offered into evidence describing sexual acts with or on the child by another may be admissible. The bill further provides that in any such civil proceeding, a recorded statement of the alleged victim of the abuse or neglect, made prior to the proceeding, may be admissible if the alleged victim is 14 years of age or younger at the time the statement is offered into evidence. Under current law, such out-of-court and recorded statements may be admissible when the child is 12 years of age or younger.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1622ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100479D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19100479D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — 12–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-10-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100479D introduction
• 2018-10-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-01-07 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-24 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-01-24 Engrossed by House as amended HB1622E
• 2019-01-24 Printed as engrossed 19100479D-E
• 2019-01-25 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-28 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2019-02-07 Assigned Rehab sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 Rereferred to Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-22 Enrolled
• 2019-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-22 Signed by President
• 2019-03-04 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
• 2019-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 413 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c097d416-fb35-48ac-a202-ada772767315. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).