republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-20.md

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Bill	Deferred dispositions; expungement of police and court records.	Deferred dispositions; expungement. Clarifies that a charged dismissed after a deferred disposition that may be eligible for expungement upon agreement of all parties includes an original charge that was reduced or a charge that is dismissed after a plea or stipulation of the facts that would justify a finding of guilt.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 20	Virginia SB 20 (2024)	bill		enacted	Richard H. Stuart	4	31	6	2023-12-07	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/d6e3e1a1-fc3b-4724-9b4a-99d6b922b1bb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB20	96e49d3bae0d1215f7ac4936ee5b58edef827004f4c4151847d3751f7656a99d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 20 (2024) — Deferred dispositions; expungement of police and court records.

Deferred dispositions; expungement. Clarifies that a charged dismissed after a deferred disposition that may be eligible for expungement upon agreement of all parties includes an original charge that was reduced or a charge that is dismissed after a plea or stipulation of the facts that would justify a finding of guilt.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0755 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106864D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100882D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB20ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100882D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24106864D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106864D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB20S1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB20S1)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB20ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB20ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 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
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 755 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d6e3e1a1-fc3b-4724-9b4a-99d6b922b1bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).