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Bill Child abuse or neglect; appeals from founded complaints, concurrent criminal investigations. Provides that whenever an appeal of a finding by a local department of social services is made and a criminal investigation is also commenced against the appellant for the same conduct involving the same victim as investigated by the local department, the appeal process shall automatically be stayed until the criminal investigation is closed or, in the case of a criminal investigation that is not completed within 180 days of the appellant's request for an appeal, for 180 days. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 1953 Virginia HB 1953 (2019)
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Crimes and Offenses Generally
Welfare (Social Services)
enacted
Jeffrey L. Campbell
3 17 5 2019-01-06 2019-02-13 openstates ocd-bill/5b3307e6-b5a2-45dd-9b92-af82ad0559c8 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1953 c44e38ef30b711ad4fd9e4a64d233ceca157a388e15bcd93ef051214dbd23bc4 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Virginia HB 1953 (2019) — Child abuse or neglect; appeals from founded complaints, concurrent criminal investigations.

Provides that whenever an appeal of a finding by a local department of social services is made and a criminal investigation is also commenced against the appellant for the same conduct involving the same victim as investigated by the local department, the appeal process shall automatically be stayed until the criminal investigation is closed or, in the case of a criminal investigation that is not completed within 180 days of the appellant's request for an appeal, for 180 days. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1953ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103324D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 100 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — 150 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)
  • Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103324D introduction
  • 2019-01-06 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
  • 2019-01-11 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2019-01-21 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-22 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-01-23 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2019-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2019-01-24 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
  • 2019-02-05 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-02-05 Passed by temporarily
  • 2019-02-06 Enrolled
  • 2019-02-06 Signed by Speaker
  • 2019-02-06 Signed by President
  • 2019-02-07 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 7, 2019
  • 2019-02-07 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 14, 2019
  • 2019-02-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b3307e6-b5a2-45dd-9b92-af82ad0559c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).