republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-781.md

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Bill	Retired or former law-enforcement officers; 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 HB 1874.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 781	Virginia SB 781 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jennifer D. Carroll Foy	5	26	6	2024-12-26	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/8965619d-ecf6-4867-88b9-fc5ee7cb97e0	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB781	438564ed5595832db0712e00aa18302020b717ed877183b77219a6cda639c0c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 781 (2025) — Retired or former law-enforcement officers; 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 HB 1874.

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 amendments (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-26 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101049D filing, introduction
• 2024-12-26 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-15 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-15 Reading of amendments waived
• 2025-01-15 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-01-15 Printed as engrossed 25101049D-E
• 2025-01-16 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-10 Passed House (95-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-11 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-11 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB781ER) passage
• 2025-02-11 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-13 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-02-18 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 215 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8965619d-ecf6-4867-88b9-fc5ee7cb97e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).