republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-16.md

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Bill	Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited.	Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, including data stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information. This bill is identical to HB 78.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 16	Virginia SB 16 (2024)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	5	36	7	2023-11-27	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/1bfeaab4-4ae5-456e-b5be-ed672529c8a7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB16	1623a98d9dde204a3d8d8d39db882e0d7940214f16787cb6b996f25eb03112cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 16 (2024) — Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited.

Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, including data stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information. This bill is identical to HB 78.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0571 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106050D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24107823D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100007D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB16ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N) — 50–49 (pass) · lower
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N) — 22–17 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• Aaron R. Rouse — cosponsor (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
• Stella G. Pekarsky — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-27 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100007D filing, introduction
• 2023-11-27 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Rereferred from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Rereferred to Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute printed 24106050D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 24106050D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB16S1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Committee substitute printed 24107823D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Committee substitute rejected 24107823D-H1
• 2024-02-21 Amendment by Delegate Watts agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-21 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-21 Passed House with amendment (51-Y 49-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 House amendment agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB16ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House reprinted (SB16ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1bfeaab4-4ae5-456e-b5be-ed672529c8a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).