republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-49.md

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Bill	Critically missing adult; expands definition, receipt of reports.	Receipt of critically missing adult reports; Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program; definition. Expands the definition of "critically missing adult" to include any missing adult, including an adult who has a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or mental illness, 18 years of age or older for the purpose of receipt of critically missing adult reports by a police or sheriff's department and the Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program administered by the Department of State Police and removes from the Program the eligibility requirement that the adult is believed to have been abducted. This bill is identical to HB 1060.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 49	Virginia SB 49 (2022)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	5	40	10	2021-12-29	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/de9ec13b-678e-421f-b798-5358b8e5b9c1	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB49	9b921834156a9a9c16e474d53e558d4e60fbe71995b1cc29638b7bf8a4aa44da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 49 (2022) — Critically missing adult; expands definition, receipt of reports.

Receipt of critically missing adult reports; Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program; definition. Expands the definition of "critically missing adult" to include any missing adult, including an adult who has a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or mental illness, 18 years of age or older for the purpose of receipt of critically missing adult reports by a police or sheriff's department and the Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program administered by the Department of State Police and removes from the Program the eligibility requirement that the adult is believed to have been abducted. This bill is identical to HB 1060.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0395 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22106956D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference substitute printed 22107761D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101581D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB49ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 0–39 (fail) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-12-29 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101581D introduction
• 2021-12-29 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB49)
• 2022-01-14 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-18 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-19 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-25 Committee substitute printed 22106956D-H1 substitution
• 2022-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB49H1)
• 2022-03-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Committee substitute agreed to 22106956D-H1
• 2022-03-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB49H1
• 2022-03-02 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-04 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
• 2022-03-07 House insisted on substitute
• 2022-03-07 House requested conference committee
• 2022-03-08 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-08 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
• 2022-03-10 Amended by conference committee
• 2022-03-10 Conference substitute printed 22107761D-S1
• 2022-03-10 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB49S1)
• 2022-03-21 Enrolled
• 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB49ER)
• 2022-03-21 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 395 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de9ec13b-678e-421f-b798-5358b8e5b9c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).