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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business records; admissibility in criminal proceedings."
description: "Business records; admissibility in criminal proceedings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1903"
citation: "Virginia HB 1903 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve E. Heretick"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d175f77e-bdb0-4212-b082-596ed6ad5c16"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1903"
source_hash: "ba8a8b7ebf2b0c86fb3e5119686467fbc03c8b64a5b937d3bc841109a4c9d098"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1903 (2017) — Business records; admissibility in criminal proceedings.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0223)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1903ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1903ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101374D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1903)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **122** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **346** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **110** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **945** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Steve E. Heretick — primary (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101374D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 223 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d175f77e-bdb0-4212-b082-596ed6ad5c16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).