republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1261.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 HB 2472.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1261	Virginia SB 1261 (2025)	bill		enacted	Lamont Bagby	6	34	6	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/ddf03001-f9bb-4be8-a279-7e5ea38956c2	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1261	d9814f31b32d752a54a38ee232e7978c8a6f78c8e115329f081fb68870fe5690	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1261 (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 HB 2472.

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

Votes

• Passed House with substitute (66-Y 29-N) — 66–29 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 3-N) — 19–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lamont Bagby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103867D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-21 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-21 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-22 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-01-22 Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-22 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1261E
• 2025-01-22 Printed as engrossed 25103867D-E
• 2025-01-23 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261)
• 2025-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-05 Committee substitute printed 25106790D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-10 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-10 Passed House with substitute (66-Y 29-N) passage
• 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261)
• 2025-02-12 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1261ER) passage
• 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261)
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (Effective 07/01/26) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ddf03001-f9bb-4be8-a279-7e5ea38956c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).