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Bill	Confidentiality of juvenile court records; exceptions.	Confidentiality of juvenile court records; exceptions. Provides that juvenile case files shall be open for inspection by(i) the Department of Social Services or any local department ofsocial services that is providing services or care for, or has accepteda referral for investigation and the provision of services pursuantto a request for relief of custody regarding, a juvenile who is thesubject of the record for (a) a purpose relevant to the provisionof the services or care or (b) the purpose of conducting an investigationor family assessment of child abuse or neglect involving the juvenilewho is the subject of the record and (ii) the Department of BehavioralHealth and Developmental Services or any local community servicesboard that is providing treatment, services, or care for a juvenilewho is the subject of the record for a purpose relevant to the provisionof the treatment, services, or care.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1206	Virginia SB 1206 (2021)	bill		enacted	George L. Barker	5	33	7	2021-01-11	2021-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/f30bf919-9d5e-4d00-ada0-fbd137659e7b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1206	9b07d363293a0c4e1a2cada1a7796b3bfd2f1900f21d35378a9c4e75f93c704e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1206 (2021) — Confidentiality of juvenile court records; exceptions.

Confidentiality of juvenile court records; exceptions. Provides that juvenile case files shall be open for inspection by(i) the Department of Social Services or any local department ofsocial services that is providing services or care for, or has accepteda referral for investigation and the provision of services pursuantto a request for relief of custody regarding, a juvenile who is thesubject of the record for (a) a purpose relevant to the provisionof the services or care or (b) the purpose of conducting an investigationor family assessment of child abuse or neglect involving the juvenilewho is the subject of the record and (ii) the Department of BehavioralHealth and Developmental Services or any local community servicesboard that is providing treatment, services, or care for a juvenilewho is the subject of the record for a purpose relevant to the provisionof the treatment, services, or care.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0466 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103296D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102736D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1206ER (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1206ES1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 7-N) — 8–7 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 11-N) — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102736D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-01-25 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-25 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-25 Committee substitute printed 21103296D-S1 substitution
• 2021-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-27 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 21103296D-S1
• 2021-01-27 Reading of amendments waived
• 2021-01-27 Amendments by Senator Barker agreed to amendment-passage
• 2021-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1206ES1
• 2021-01-27 Printed as engrossed 21103296D-ES1
• 2021-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 11-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice
• 2021-02-09 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2021-02-10 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-17 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-17 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-19 Enrolled
• 2021-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-22 Signed by President
• 2021-02-24 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
• 2021-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB1206ER)
• 2021-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 466 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f30bf919-9d5e-4d00-ada0-fbd137659e7b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).