republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1874.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retired or former law-enforcement officers; definition, publication of personal information."
description: "Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of \"public official\" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing a public official's personal information on the Internet. The bill clarifies that such retired or former law-enforcement officer be in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions. The bill provides that the demand in writing required to prohibit the publication of such personal information shall be effective for a period of four years, provided that such retired or former law-enforcement officer was retired or ended his service within four years of filing a petition with a circuit court. This bill is identical to SB 781."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1874"
citation: "Virginia HB 1874 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rozia A. Henson, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/516be09b-6633-4dce-8a37-729995f8ed3e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1874"
source_hash: "b4de1f96919618f692fbf7c4b4e651e319811d314e5ec538b8e03f0de3cdd08f"
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 1874 (2025) — Retired or former law-enforcement officers; definition, publication of personal information.

Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing a public official's personal information on the Internet. The bill clarifies that such retired or former law-enforcement officer be in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions. The bill provides that the demand in writing required to prohibit the publication of such personal information shall be effective for a period of four years, provided that such retired or former law-enforcement officer was retired or ended his service within four years of filing a petition with a circuit court. This bill is identical to SB 781.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013323.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072012.PDF)
3. **Courts of Justice Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1020911.HTML)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1023749.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046209.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)
- Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103674D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Courts of Justice Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-22** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-01-22** Printed as engrossed 25103674D-E
- **2025-01-23** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-07** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-12** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1874ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-15** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/516be09b-6633-4dce-8a37-729995f8ed3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).