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type: "Bill"
title: "Pretrial data collection; VCSC to collect and disseminate on an annual basis."
description: "Pretrial data collection. Requires the VirginiaCriminal Sentencing Commission to collect and disseminate, on an annualbasis, statewide and locality-level data related to adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by confinement in jail or a termof imprisonment. The bill provides that any personal or case identifyinginformation within the data shall not be subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and shall not be made publicly available.The bill does not require that the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commissionsubmit such annual report prior to December 1, 2022. Additionally,the bill requires the Virginia State Crime Commission to providethe Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission with the final datasetof all adults charged with a criminal offense punishable by confinementin jail or a term of imprisonment as of October 2017 and that theVirginia Criminal Sentencing Commission make such statewide and locality-leveldata publicly available on a website established and maintained bythe Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission as (i) an electronic dataset, excluding any personal and case identifying information, that maybe downloaded by members of the public and (ii) an electronic interactivedata dashboard tool that displays aggregated data based on characteristicsor indicators selected by the user, by October 1, 2021. This billis a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1391"
citation: "Virginia SB 1391 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Louise Lucas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/770f3540-cedb-4d6c-be40-ec2dc26e8b48"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1391"
source_hash: "3c9ce9fd61061119541ef114150a9281fb1f3bfd4533cc1e239564c87e2ab6eb"
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 SB 1391 (2021) — Pretrial data collection; VCSC to collect and disseminate on an annual basis.
Pretrial data collection. Requires the VirginiaCriminal Sentencing Commission to collect and disseminate, on an annualbasis, statewide and locality-level data related to adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by confinement in jail or a termof imprisonment. The bill provides that any personal or case identifyinginformation within the data shall not be subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and shall not be made publicly available.The bill does not require that the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commissionsubmit such annual report prior to December 1, 2022. Additionally,the bill requires the Virginia State Crime Commission to providethe Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission with the final datasetof all adults charged with a criminal offense punishable by confinementin jail or a term of imprisonment as of October 2017 and that theVirginia Criminal Sentencing Commission make such statewide and locality-leveldata publicly available on a website established and maintained bythe Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission as (i) an electronic dataset, excluding any personal and case identifying information, that maybe downloaded by members of the public and (ii) an electronic interactivedata dashboard tool that displays aggregated data based on characteristicsor indicators selected by the user, by October 1, 2021. This billis a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0112** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0112)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103650D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1391S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102813D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1391)
4. **SB1391ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1391ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102813D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** 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 (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Committee substitute printed 21103650D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-25** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB1391S1)
- **2021-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 21103650D-S1
- **2021-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1391S1
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice
- **2021-02-12** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB1391ER)
- **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
- **2021-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (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/770f3540-cedb-4d6c-be40-ec2dc26e8b48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).