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type: "Bill"
title: "Victims of crime; compensation, reporting requirement."
description: "Compensating victims of crime; reporting requirement; sexual abuse. Provides that the requirement that the VirginiaWorkers' Compensation Commission find that police records show thecrime was promptly reported no more than 120 hours after it occurredin order to award a claimant funds from the Criminal Injuries CompensationFund does not apply to claims of sexual abuse. Under current law,the exception to such requirement applies only to claims of sexualabuse that occurred while the victim was a minor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1867"
citation: "Virginia HB 1867 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2fa4414-97b8-44e0-97c8-9964fb49ab77"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1867"
source_hash: "c7e41a796171712f692c85e310e311b9bc4c6c8b09345114ed3ab8e287834f60"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1867 (2021) — Victims of crime; compensation, reporting requirement.
Compensating victims of crime; reporting requirement; sexual abuse. Provides that the requirement that the VirginiaWorkers' Compensation Commission find that police records show thecrime was promptly reported no more than 120 hours after it occurredin order to award a claimant funds from the Criminal Injuries CompensationFund does not apply to claims of sexual abuse. Under current law,the exception to such requirement applies only to claims of sexualabuse that occurred while the victim was a minor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0178** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0178)
2. **HB1867ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1867ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102046D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1867)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 2-N) — **202** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **71** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N) — **936** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **71** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
- Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102046D `introduction`
- **2021-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1867)
- **2021-01-21** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-01-27** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 6-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01** VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N)
- **2021-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1867ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 178 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2fa4414-97b8-44e0-97c8-9964fb49ab77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).