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type: "Bill"
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title: "Child abuse or neglect; appeals from founded complaints, concurrent criminal investigations."
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description: "Provides that whenever an appeal of a finding by a local department of social services is made and a criminal investigation is also commenced against the appellant for the same conduct involving the same victim as investigated by the local department, the appeal process shall automatically be stayed until the criminal investigation is closed or, in the case of a criminal investigation that is not completed within 180 days of the appellant's request for an appeal, for 180 days. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 1953"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1953 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey L. Campbell"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2019-01-06"
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last_action: "2019-02-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b3307e6-b5a2-45dd-9b92-af82ad0559c8"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1953"
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source_hash: "c44e38ef30b711ad4fd9e4a64d233ceca157a388e15bcd93ef051214dbd23bc4"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1953 (2019) — Child abuse or neglect; appeals from founded complaints, concurrent criminal investigations.
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Provides that whenever an appeal of a finding by a local department of social services is made and a criminal investigation is also commenced against the appellant for the same conduct involving the same victim as investigated by the local department, the appeal process shall automatically be stayed until the criminal investigation is closed or, in the case of a criminal investigation that is not completed within 180 days of the appellant's request for an appeal, for 180 days. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0012)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1953ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1953ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103324D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1953)
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## Votes
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)
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- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103324D `introduction`
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- **2019-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2019-02-05** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-05** Passed by temporarily
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- **2019-02-06** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-06** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-06** Signed by President
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- **2019-02-07** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 7, 2019
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- **2019-02-07** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 14, 2019
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- **2019-02-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b3307e6-b5a2-45dd-9b92-af82ad0559c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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