republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1366.md

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Bill	Social services, local departments of; employee criminal background checks.	Local departments of social services; employeecriminal background checks. Establishes a process for local departmentsof social services to conduct background checks for current or prospectiveemployees and prohibits local departments from employing any personwho has been convicted of a criminal offense that relates to hisemployment. The bill includes criteria for the local department toconsider when deciding if a criminal offense related to employmentis relevant when hiring a specific employment position.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1366	Virginia HB 1366 (2024)	bill		enacted	Karrie K. Delaney	3	27	7	2024-01-15	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/3b695100-193a-4d6c-9ebd-0ab47b8c5b27	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1366	343bcafd2bfd4acd75cfe0bb0f982f978f64733dd320c097c6b7c14156f1f62b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1366 (2024) — Social services, local departments of; employee criminal background checks.

Local departments of social services; employeecriminal background checks. Establishes a process for local departmentsof social services to conduct background checks for current or prospectiveemployees and prohibits local departments from employing any personwho has been convicted of a criminal offense that relates to hisemployment. The bill includes criteria for the local department toconsider when deciding if a criminal offense related to employmentis relevant when hiring a specific employment position.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0555 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1366ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24102916D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-15 Presented and ordered printed 24102916D introduction
• 2024-01-15 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB1366)
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-05 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-06 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1366ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB1366ER)
• 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
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 555 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b695100-193a-4d6c-9ebd-0ab47b8c5b27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).