republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2651.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Prevention of Sex Trafficking Fund; created, fees for offenses related to sex trafficking."
description: "Establishes the Virginia Prevention of Sex Trafficking Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of promoting awareness of and preventive training and education relating to sex trafficking. The bill requires persons convicted of misdemeanor violations of prostitution, aiding prostitution, and using vehicles to promote prostitution to pay a $100 fee and persons convicted of certain felony violations of abduction with the intent to extort money or for immoral purpose, placing or leaving wife for prostitution, or felony violations of the laws pertaining to commercial sex trafficking or prostitution offenses, with the exception of violations of crimes against nature, to pay a $500 fee. Such fees are to be paid into the Virginia Prevention of Sex Trafficking Fund. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2651"
citation: "Virginia HB 2651 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commonwealth Public Safety", "Courts Not of Record", "Courts of Record", "Crimes and Offenses Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93b26a8f-b787-4984-815a-d5c629df8b87"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2651"
source_hash: "ec5577cdbe8e94e5bce7b286cc2dbddfce9c5a22bb804054ab3a67cf1d9bd45a"
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 2651 (2019) — Virginia Prevention of Sex Trafficking Fund; created, fees for offenses related to sex trafficking.

Establishes the Virginia Prevention of Sex Trafficking Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of promoting awareness of and preventive training and education relating to sex trafficking. The bill requires persons convicted of misdemeanor violations of prostitution, aiding prostitution, and using vehicles to promote prostitution to pay a $100 fee and persons convicted of certain felony violations of abduction with the intent to extort money or for immoral purpose, placing or leaving wife for prostitution, or felony violations of the laws pertaining to commercial sex trafficking or prostitution offenses, with the exception of violations of crimes against nature, to pay a $500 fee. Such fees are to be paid into the Virginia Prevention of Sex Trafficking Fund. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0728)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2651ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2651ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104379D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2651)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2651ASE)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David E. Yancey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** Presented and ordered printed 19104379D `introduction`
- **2019-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-13** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-13** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled
- **2019-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-15** Signed by President
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 728 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93b26a8f-b787-4984-815a-d5c629df8b87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).