republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-492.md

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Bill	Sex offenses; requiring registration.	Sex offenses requiring registration. Clarifiesthe registration and reregistration obligations imposed upon a personconvicted of a foreign sex offense for the purposes of registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The billalso provides that a person who is required to register may notpetition the circuit court for the removal of his name and all identifyinginformation from the Registry if such person was convicted of twoor more offenses for which registration is required and was at libertybetween such convictions. Under current law, a person does not needto be at liberty between such convictions and would be prohibitedfrom petitioning for removal from the Registry.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 492	Virginia SB 492 (2020)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	4	31	7	2020-01-07	2020-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/092785a3-f2cd-40ec-bc86-48a6e01caea3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB492	4f5319e6ff9b58bdab764770d92645de05b3a194b762186927e0ea53cfb2f3f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 492 (2020) — Sex offenses; requiring registration.

Sex offenses requiring registration. Clarifiesthe registration and reregistration obligations imposed upon a personconvicted of a foreign sex offense for the purposes of registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The billalso provides that a person who is required to register may notpetition the circuit court for the removal of his name and all identifyinginformation from the Registry if such person was convicted of twoor more offenses for which registration is required and was at libertybetween such convictions. Under current law, a person does not needto be at liberty between such convictions and would be prohibitedfrom petitioning for removal from the Registry.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB492ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB492) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB492H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 3-N) — 8–3 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N) — 53–45 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) — 21–18 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 7-N) — 12–7 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104670D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB492)
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-02-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
• 2020-03-02 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2020-03-02 Committee substitute printed 20109405D-H1 substitution
• 2020-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB492H1)
• 2020-03-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-05 Committee substitute agreed to 20109405D-H1
• 2020-03-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB492H1
• 2020-03-05 Passed House with substitute (54-Y 45-N) passage
• 2020-03-05 VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N)
• 2020-03-05 House substitute agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)
• 2020-03-05 Title replaced 20109405D-H1
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled
• 2020-03-12 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-16 Impact statement from DPB (SB492ER)
• 2020-03-17 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
• 2020-03-17 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 826 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/092785a3-f2cd-40ec-bc86-48a6e01caea3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).