republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1874.md

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Bill	Retired or former law-enforcement officers; definition, publication of personal information.	Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing a public official's personal information on the Internet. The bill clarifies that such retired or former law-enforcement officer be in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions. The bill provides that the demand in writing required to prohibit the publication of such personal information shall be effective for a period of four years, provided that such retired or former law-enforcement officer was retired or ended his service within four years of filing a petition with a circuit court. This bill is identical to SB 781.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1874	Virginia HB 1874 (2025)	bill		enacted	Rozia A. Henson, Jr.	5	27	6	2025-01-06	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/516be09b-6633-4dce-8a37-729995f8ed3e	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1874	b4de1f96919618f692fbf7c4b4e651e319811d314e5ec538b8e03f0de3cdd08f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1874 (2025) — Retired or former law-enforcement officers; definition, publication of personal information.

Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing a public official's personal information on the Internet. The bill clarifies that such retired or former law-enforcement officer be in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions. The bill provides that the demand in writing required to prohibit the publication of such personal information shall be effective for a period of four years, provided that such retired or former law-enforcement officer was retired or ended his service within four years of filing a petition with a circuit court. This bill is identical to SB 781.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Courts of Justice Amendments (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103674D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-17 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-22 Courts of Justice Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-22 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-01-22 Printed as engrossed 25103674D-E
• 2025-01-23 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-24 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-07 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-07 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-12 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-12 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1874ER) passage
• 2025-02-12 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-15 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-02-18 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/516be09b-6633-4dce-8a37-729995f8ed3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).