republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-435.md

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Bill	Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court.	Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 435	Virginia HB 435 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jonathan "Jed" Arnold	3	30	8	2024-01-08	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/92cf856d-6b39-43b7-91c7-ecba91b5fc4b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB435	e38c3b5dee5bb230c7cb4495ee9bb2a2a5736e14568b3a48364bd89092fd2ef0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 435 (2024) — Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court.

Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0190 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB435ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101626D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101626D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB435)
• 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
• 2024-02-09 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB435ER) passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-08 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB435ER)
• 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
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92cf856d-6b39-43b7-91c7-ecba91b5fc4b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).