republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-924.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products.	Drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products. Clarifies that drug checking products used to determine the presence or concentration of a contaminant that can cause physical harm or death are not drug paraphernalia or controlled paraphernalia.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 924	Virginia SB 924 (2025)	bill		enacted	Christopher T. Head	3	27	6	2025-01-06	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/70fa4eb3-9c1c-453d-a3ee-4725c808e283	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB924	798dc8e7f09bab8d95ab49ccb121de3403d2ac323a3cef7635160afab21a8506	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 924 (2025) — Drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products.

Drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products. Clarifies that drug checking products used to determine the presence or concentration of a contaminant that can cause physical harm or death are not drug paraphernalia or controlled paraphernalia.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101554D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB924)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-07 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB924ER) passage
• 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
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB924)
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70fa4eb3-9c1c-453d-a3ee-4725c808e283. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).