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| Bill | Human trafficking; assessments by local departments. | Human trafficking assessments by local departments. Changes the name of sex trafficking assessments to human trafficking assessments and allows local departments of social services conducting such human trafficking assessments to interview the alleged child victim or his siblings without the consent and outside the presence of such child's or siblings' parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis, or school personnel. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to HB 1006. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 706 | Virginia SB 706 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 706 (2020) — Human trafficking; assessments by local departments.
Human trafficking assessments by local departments. Changes the name of sex trafficking assessments to human trafficking assessments and allows local departments of social services conducting such human trafficking assessments to interview the alleged child victim or his siblings without the consent and outside the presence of such child's or siblings' parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis, or school personnel. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to HB 1006.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB706ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB706) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105034D
introduction - 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB706)
- 2020-01-31 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-04 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-20 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-21 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-26 Enrolled
- 2020-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB706ER)
- 2020-02-27 Signed by President
- 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-04 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
- 2020-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
- 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 234 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccd29086-2c6f-41b3-a2b1-05add0e3d00c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).