republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1200.md

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Bill	Victims of crime; compensation, extends time for filing a claim.	Compensating victims of crime. Extends, for the purpose of compensating victims of crime, the time for filing a claim by the claimant to not later than three years after the occurrence of the crime upon which such claim is based or not later than three years after the death of the victim. Under current law, such time frame is not later than one year after either instance.The bill removes the prohibition on the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) making an award where the police records show that a crime was reported more than 120 hours after the occurrence of the crime unless the Commission, for good cause shown, finds the delay to have been justified. Also, the bill requires the Commission, in determining if a report was promptly reported to the proper authorities, to consider (i) any police records; (ii) the victim's physical, emotional, mental, and family situation; and (iii) the existence of a permanent protective order, issued pursuant to relevant law, for the victim or other persons eligible for awards from the person responsible for the qualifying crime.The bill also removes the ability of the Commission to deny, reduce, or withdraw any award upon finding that any claimant or award recipient has not fully cooperated with all law-enforcement agencies unless the law-enforcement agency certifies that the claimant or award recipient was willing but unable to cooperate due to a good faith belief that such cooperation would have endangered such claimant or award recipient and such claimant or award recipient was not provided with any victim or witness protection services when such protection services were requested by a law-enforcement agency. This bill is identical to HB 1968.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1200	Virginia SB 1200 (2025)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	7	40	8	2025-01-08	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/165dbdf5-076a-4d0d-8441-f0e6cccc11a7	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1200	4d03c46b04e2516c6a2fd39a29b84ed60a9672885638bab0b9fbba84e6ec9565	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1200 (2025) — Victims of crime; compensation, extends time for filing a claim.

Compensating victims of crime. Extends, for the purpose of compensating victims of crime, the time for filing a claim by the claimant to not later than three years after the occurrence of the crime upon which such claim is based or not later than three years after the death of the victim. Under current law, such time frame is not later than one year after either instance.The bill removes the prohibition on the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) making an award where the police records show that a crime was reported more than 120 hours after the occurrence of the crime unless the Commission, for good cause shown, finds the delay to have been justified. Also, the bill requires the Commission, in determining if a report was promptly reported to the proper authorities, to consider (i) any police records; (ii) the victim's physical, emotional, mental, and family situation; and (iii) the existence of a permanent protective order, issued pursuant to relevant law, for the victim or other persons eligible for awards from the person responsible for the qualifying crime.The bill also removes the ability of the Commission to deny, reduce, or withdraw any award upon finding that any claimant or award recipient has not fully cooperated with all law-enforcement agencies unless the law-enforcement agency certifies that the claimant or award recipient was willing but unable to cooperate due to a good faith belief that such cooperation would have endangered such claimant or award recipient and such claimant or award recipient was not provided with any victim or witness protection services when such protection services were requested by a law-enforcement agency. This bill is identical to HB 1968.

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 Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Finance and Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100993D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-21 Committee substitute printed 25105421D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1200)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 2025-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-31 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-01-31 Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute as amended substitution
• 2025-01-31 Printed as engrossed 25105421D-ES1
• 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1200)
• 2025-02-06 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107004D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-13 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-13 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1200ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1200)
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 244 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/165dbdf5-076a-4d0d-8441-f0e6cccc11a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).