republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-444.md

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Bill	Virginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring.	Virginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring. Changes the time frame for which a participating entity in the Virginia Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service is required to disenroll any individual who is deceased or no longer qualifies as an individual for the purposes of the Virginia Rap Back Service from within 30 days to within five business days. The bill also removes the provision stating that an individual who moves from one participating entity in the Virginia Rap Back Service to another need not be refingerprinted. The bill contains technical amendments and is identical to SB 169.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 444	Virginia HB 444 (2024)	bill		enacted	Wren M. Williams	3	26	6	2024-01-08	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ef9651d5-42ff-4768-a8c9-91f7d0a3ccb0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB444	45e2cb811660006fdab519e8a50895240bfc088531968aae9b5762388ad94f86	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 444 (2024) — Virginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring.

Virginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring. Changes the time frame for which a participating entity in the Virginia Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service is required to disenroll any individual who is deceased or no longer qualifies as an individual for the purposes of the Virginia Rap Back Service from within 30 days to within five business days. The bill also removes the provision stating that an individual who moves from one participating entity in the Virginia Rap Back Service to another need not be refingerprinted. The bill contains technical amendments and is identical to SB 169.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0041 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB444ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102794D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) — 4–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wren M. Williams — primary (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102794D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Assigned PS sub: Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB444)
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N)
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-02 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB444ER) passage
• 2024-02-22 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB444ER)
• 2024-02-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 41 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0041)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef9651d5-42ff-4768-a8c9-91f7d0a3ccb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).