republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2472.md

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Bill	Juveniles; fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs, effective date.	Fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs of juveniles. Requires law-enforcement officers to obtain, electronically when possible, fingerprints, palm prints with accompanying distal prints, if available, and photographs of any juvenile taken into custody and charged with a delinquent act. The bill also requires such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be both filed with the Central Criminal Records Exchange and submitted electronically, when possible, to the State Police to be maintained in a confidential and secure area within the system in which the record is maintained that is inaccessible during routine use of such system. The bill further requires any electronic record of such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be destroyed as soon as possible after the State Police have been notified that a petition or warrant has not been filed against the juvenile. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 1261.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2472	Virginia HB 2472 (2025)	bill		enacted	Amanda E. Batten	5	33	7	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/abda2d81-d134-4fc4-b768-5a0af716170b	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2472	91bc6aa0532638b8704425cd2c3f778c8f1fa09e5b9cf5f4672b82ce1ff28d4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2472 (2025) — Juveniles; fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs, effective date.

Fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs of juveniles. Requires law-enforcement officers to obtain, electronically when possible, fingerprints, palm prints with accompanying distal prints, if available, and photographs of any juvenile taken into custody and charged with a delinquent act. The bill also requires such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be both filed with the Central Criminal Records Exchange and submitted electronically, when possible, to the State Police to be maintained in a confidential and secure area within the system in which the record is maintained that is inaccessible during routine use of such system. The bill further requires any electronic record of such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be destroyed as soon as possible after the State Police have been notified that a petition or warrant has not been filed against the juvenile. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 1261.

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 (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (51-Y 46-N) — 51–46 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N) — 56–41 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (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

Sponsors

• Amanda E. Batten — primary (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102079D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2472)
• 2025-01-21 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25102079D-E
• 2025-02-04 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (51-Y 46-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2472)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2472ER) passage
• 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2472)
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 175 (Effective 07/01/26) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/abda2d81-d134-4fc4-b768-5a0af716170b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).