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Bill State correctional facilities; visitors wearing tampons or menstrual cups. Directs the Director of the Department of Corrections to review the Department's visitation policies concerning visitors' wearing of tampons or menstrual cups at state correctional facilities and shall revise such policies as necessary to permit such visitors to wear tampons or menstrual cups. The bill directs the Department to make the policy available to the public as soon as practicable and to provide a copy to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by November 1, 2019. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 1884 Virginia HB 1884 (2019)
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Virginia HB 1884 (2019) — State correctional facilities; visitors wearing tampons or menstrual cups.

Directs the Director of the Department of Corrections to review the Department's visitation policies concerning visitors' wearing of tampons or menstrual cups at state correctional facilities and shall revise such policies as necessary to permit such visitors to wear tampons or menstrual cups. The bill directs the Department to make the policy available to the public as soon as practicable and to provide a copy to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by November 1, 2019.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1884ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Committee substitute printed 19105835D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100617D (committee substitute) — source
  5. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House — 953 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 60 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate with amendment — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Senate amendment agreed to by House — 1000 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute — 191 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100617D introduction
  • 2019-01-03 Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety referral-committee
  • 2019-01-15 Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2019-01-29 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-30 Passed by for the day
  • 2019-01-31 Read second time reading-2
  • 2019-01-31 Committee substitute rejected 19105835D-H1
  • 2019-01-31 Passed by for the day
  • 2019-02-01 Passed by for the day
  • 2019-02-04 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2019-02-10 Assigned Rehab sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2019-02-19 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-02-19 Reading of amendment waived
  • 2019-02-19 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2019-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2019-02-20 Senate amendment agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
  • 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
  • 2019-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 303 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f3db1537-eb95-428e-b2e9-45cfa9e16a96. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).