republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2401.md

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Bill	Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account.	Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Requires that a child under the age of 16 who meets certain criteria specified in the bill to be considered a child engaged in the work of content creation be compensated by the content creator, defined in the bill, whose video content includes such child's likeness, name, or photograph. The bill requires the content creator to set aside gross earnings on the video content that includes the likeness, name, or photograph of the child in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the child upon attaining 18 years of age or having been declared emancipated. The bill also requires the content creator to maintain certain records specified in the bill and provide them to the child and the holder of the trust account on an ongoing basis. The bill also allows the child, or his parent or guardian on behalf of such child, to commence a civil action if the content creator fails to maintain the required records and to enforce the provisions of law related to the trust account. This bill is identical to SB 998.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2401	Virginia HB 2401 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jackie H. Glass	9	52	13	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/5811db8f-3c21-462f-9258-05fcb898d946	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2401	34bc20ca7e9a9fba51363f7a04ab522b5aaa47fd2b90d802ba95a67b6f960857	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2401 (2025) — Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account.

Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Requires that a child under the age of 16 who meets certain criteria specified in the bill to be considered a child engaged in the work of content creation be compensated by the content creator, defined in the bill, whose video content includes such child's likeness, name, or photograph. The bill requires the content creator to set aside gross earnings on the video content that includes the likeness, name, or photograph of the child in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the child upon attaining 18 years of age or having been declared emancipated. The bill also requires the content creator to maintain certain records specified in the bill and provide them to the child and the holder of the trust account on an ongoing basis. The bill also allows the child, or his parent or guardian on behalf of such child, to commence a civil action if the content creator fails to maintain the required records and to enforce the provisions of law related to the trust account. This bill is identical to SB 998.

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. Commerce and Labor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
5. Conference Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Governor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
8. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by House (52-Y 44-N) — 52–44 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House (1-Y 96-N) — 1–96 (fail) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed by for the day — 47–46 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N) — 53–46 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (11-Y 10-N) — 11–10 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jackie H. Glass — primary (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100160D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2401)
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Labor and Commerce (11-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107046D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2401)
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Committee substitute printed 25107575D-S2 substitution
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Commerce and Labor Substitute rejected
• 2025-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-18 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate substitute rejected by House (1-Y 96-N)
• 2025-02-20 Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-20 Delegates: Glass, Helmer, O'Quinn
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: Ebbin, Williams Graves, Obenshain
• 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-21 Conference substitute printed 25107937D-H1
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (52-Y 44-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2401)
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2401ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2401)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB2401H2)
• 2025-04-02 Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N)
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 699 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5811db8f-3c21-462f-9258-05fcb898d946. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).