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Bill	Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services, exception.	Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and behavioral health authorities to hire applicants convicted of certain barrier crimes of misdemeanor assault and battery or involving controlled substances provided that such conviction occurred more than four years prior to the application date for employment. This bill is identical to SB 626.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1269	Virginia HB 1269 (2024)	bill		enacted	Marcia S. "Cia" Price	6	50	10	2024-01-10	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/146bd564-5da6-42c7-841c-20c03b9c82fb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1269	6c22a397c0782671b7ed8cf2bc603bc32ef5c0269122010dc7bdece5cc90107e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1269 (2024) — Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services, exception.

Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and behavioral health authorities to hire applicants convicted of certain barrier crimes of misdemeanor assault and battery or involving controlled substances provided that such conviction occurred more than four years prior to the application date for employment. This bill is identical to SB 626.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0651 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106182D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24107793D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Conference substitute printed 24109030D-H2 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB1269ER (committee substitute) — source
6. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101179D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by Senate (34-Y 6-N) — 34–6 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: (96-Y 1-N) — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 98-N) — 1–97 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (10-Y 3-N) — 10–3 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 3-N) — 92–3 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (30-Y 10-N) — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101179D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB1269)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-30 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Committee substitute printed 24106182D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB1269H1)
• 2024-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Committee substitute rejected 24106182D-H1
• 2024-02-02 Engrossed by House
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-05 VOTE: (96-Y 1-N)
• 2024-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-06 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Committee substitute printed 24107793D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (10-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB1269S1)
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 24107793D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1269S1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate with substitute (30-Y 10-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 Senate substitute rejected by House 24107793D-S1 (1-Y 98-N)
• 2024-02-22 VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 98-N)
• 2024-02-26 Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 House acceded to request
• 2024-02-28 Conferees appointed by House
• 2024-02-28 Delegates: Price, Tran, Cherry
• 2024-02-29 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2024-02-29 Senators: Pillion, Perry, Carroll Foy
• 2024-03-07 Amended by conference committee
• 2024-03-07 Conference substitute printed 24109030D-H2
• 2024-03-07 Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 3-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 3-N)
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (34-Y 6-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1269H2)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1269ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB1269ER)
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 651 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/146bd564-5da6-42c7-841c-20c03b9c82fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).