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Bill Minors; limiting room or cell confinement in a juvenile correctional facility, report. Department of Juvenile Justice; limiting room or cell confinement for minors committed to a juvenile correctional facility; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to establish clear standards to maximize the amount of time that a minor committed to a juvenile correctional facility spends out of the confinement of his room or cell. The bill directs the Department to study and consider the benefits to minors of limiting such confinement and the impact of such benefits on factors such as the safety of the facility and successful reentry into the community, and, in considering and studying such benefits, to develop a minimum number of hours per day that minors committed to a juvenile correctional facility shall spend out of the confinement of their rooms or cells. The bill directs the Department to report on certain data collected after developing and implementing such standards and other related training and programming to the Commission on Youth and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services and the House Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Safety by November 1, 2026. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Commission on Youth. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2026 HB 91 Virginia HB 91 (2026)
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Virginia HB 91 (2026) — Minors; limiting room or cell confinement in a juvenile correctional facility, report.

Department of Juvenile Justice; limiting room or cell confinement for minors committed to a juvenile correctional facility; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to establish clear standards to maximize the amount of time that a minor committed to a juvenile correctional facility spends out of the confinement of his room or cell. The bill directs the Department to study and consider the benefits to minors of limiting such confinement and the impact of such benefits on factors such as the safety of the facility and successful reentry into the community, and, in considering and studying such benefits, to develop a minimum number of hours per day that minors committed to a juvenile correctional facility shall spend out of the confinement of their rooms or cells. The bill directs the Department to report on certain data collected after developing and implementing such standards and other related training and programming to the Commission on Youth and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services and the House Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Safety by November 1, 2026. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Commission on Youth.

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. Rehabilitation and Social Services Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • H VOTE: — 878 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — 114 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Public Safety — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 370 (pass) · upper
  • H VOTE: — 8612 (pass) · lower
  • Passage R — 362 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Holly M. Seibold — primary (person)
  • Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
  • Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
  • Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
  • Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
  • Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102332D filing, introduction
  • 2026-01-01 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
  • 2026-01-08 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB91)
  • 2026-01-20 Assigned HPS sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2026-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
  • 2026-01-23 Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-01-27 Read first time reading-1
  • 2026-01-28 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
  • 2026-01-28 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2026-01-29 Read third time and passed House (86-Y 12-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
  • 2026-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2026-01-30 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2026-02-20 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (11-Y 4-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-23 Rules suspended
  • 2026-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
  • 2026-02-23 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-02-24 Read third time reading-3
  • 2026-02-24 Rehabilitation and Social Services Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2026-02-24 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2026-02-24 Passed Senate with amendments (36-Y 2-N 0-A) passage
  • 2026-02-26 Senate amendments agreed to by House (87-Y 8-N 0-A) amendment-passage
  • 2026-03-03 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2026-03-03 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB91ER) passage
  • 2026-03-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB91)
  • 2026-03-03 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2026-03-03 Signed by President passage
  • 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
  • 2026-04-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 559 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
  • 2026-04-13 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c937c30-fd35-405a-bed7-2b3972759979. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).