republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1277.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Child care; background checks.	Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the past five years.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1277	Virginia HB 1277 (2024)	bill		enacted	Amy J. Laufer	4	30	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/3f56e85c-bd60-4132-8a5b-680caf65be64	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1277	4b9d9c198392ca78289b2c7687fe04f407488c1ce6c107523b0c093866ff4dab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1277 (2024) — Child care; background checks.

Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the past five years.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0477 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106132D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1277ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102756D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 1-N) — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — 98–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Amy J. Laufer — primary (person)
• Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — 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 24102756D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB1277)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2024-01-29 Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Committee substitute printed 24106132D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB1277H1)
• 2024-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 24106132D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1277H1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-02 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1277ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB1277ER)
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f56e85c-bd60-4132-8a5b-680caf65be64. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).