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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal history record information; discovery."
description: "Provides that laws precluding dissemination of a person's criminal history record information do not preclude dissemination made pursuant to the rules of court for obtaining discovery or for review by the court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 988"
citation: "Virginia HB 988 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure", "Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Todd Gilbert"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6999f017-ad5d-49bb-ba64-0aff4df2450e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB988"
source_hash: "499f74b56645c047c3efe17d7442e218a3d23b54fe942907f73275a7994f9ab9"
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 988 (2018) — Criminal history record information; discovery.
Provides that laws precluding dissemination of a person's criminal history record information do not preclude dissemination made pursuant to the rules of court for obtaining discovery or for review by the court.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0049)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB988ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB988ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102815D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB988)
## Votes
- Passed Senate with amendment — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **960** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **100** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **180** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- C. Todd Gilbert — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102815D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
- **2018-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2018-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2018-02-16** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 49 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6999f017-ad5d-49bb-ba64-0aff4df2450e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).