Criminal History Information
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications, penalty for noncompliance. [HB-485]
School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licensed, provisionally licensed, or unlicensed are subject to the requirements in existing law to undergo a criminal history records check and a search of the registry of founded complaints of child abuse and neglect and to disclose certain criminal history information at the employment application stage
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Left In Education on 11/18/2024
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Social services, local departments of; employee criminal background checks. [HB-1366]
Local departments of social services; employee criminal background checks. Establishes a process for local departments of social services to conduct background checks for current or prospective employees and prohibits local departments from employing any person who has been convicted of a criminal offense that relates to his employment. The bill includes criteria for the local department to consider when deciding if a criminal offense related to employment is relevant when hiring a specific employment position.
Sponsored by: Rep. Karrie Delaney
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0555) on 04/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms, certain; criminal history record information check required for transfer. [HB-1325]
Criminal history record information check required for the transfer of certain firearms. Eliminates the requirement that firearms dealers must mail or deliver the written criminal history information record check consent to the Department of State Police on the last day of the week following the sale or transfer of any firearm.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim Taylor
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Child care; background checks. [HB-1277]
Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0477) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Child care; background checks for applicants for employment, etc. [HB-475]
Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Austin
Incorporated By Education on 01/29/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications, penalty for noncompliance. [HB-485]
School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licensed, provisionally licensed, or unlicensed are subject to the requirements in existing law to undergo a criminal history records check and a search of the registry of founded complaints of child abuse and neglect and to disclose certain criminal history information at the employment application stage
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Continued To 2025 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/07/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Child day program employees and volunteers; background checks, dissemination of information. [HB-508]
Department of Education; background checks for child day program employees and volunteers; dissemination of information in certain circumstances. Requires the Department of Education, upon receiving a written request for a written certification from an individual, to provide written certification to an entity designated by the Department that provides staffing for child day programs that such individual satisfies all requirements set forth in relevant law and is eligible to serve as an employee, temporary employee, or volunteer in a child day program.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0289) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Pro tempore judicial appointments; criminal background checks, financial disclosure. [HB-431]
Pro tempore judicial appointments; criminal background checks; financial disclosure. Requires that prior to an appointment as a pro tempore judge, a person submit his fingerprints for a national and Virginia criminal history record search, submit to a search of the central registry maintained by the Department of Social Services for founded complaints of child abuse and neglect, and provide a written statement of economic interests. The bill prohibits any person with a criminal felony conviction from being appointed as a pro tempore judge. Pro
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Arnold
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0723) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Criminal history record information; dissemination of information to DSS. [HB-361]
Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening individuals as a condition of licensure, employment, volunteering, or providing services on a regular basis in a licensed child welfare agency or foster or adoptive home approved by a child-placing agency. Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0526) on 04/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Cosmetology Compact; established. [HB-322]
Cosmetology Compact. Establishes the Cosmetology Compact upon the enactment of substantially similar legislation in the seventh member state, defined in the bill. The bill creates a multistate license in furtherance of the objectives of providing opportunities for the uninterrupted practice of cosmetology between member states and supporting the relocation of military members and their spouses by enabling such continuation of practice. The bill requires the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Glass
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0281) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records. [HB-2400]
Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records; repeal. Repeals the statute providing for the limitation on the dissemination of criminal history record information related to the possession of marijuana and the statute related to automatic sealing for mistaken identity or unauthorized use of identifying information. The bill also repeals the provisions related to the automatic and petition-based expungement of former marijuana offenses and instead provides for the sealing of such offenses. The bill also removes the provisions related to the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0554) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Background checks; employees of children and developmental services, adult substance abuse services. [HB-2342]
Background checks; services for children and developmental services; adult substance abuse and mental health services. Separates background check requirements for direct care positions with service providers and community services boards. The bill separates provisions regarding background checks of employees in direct care positions providing adult substance abuse and mental health services from those of background checks of employees in direct care positions providing services for children and developmental services. Background checks; services
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0236) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records. [SB-1402]
Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records; repeal. Repeals the statute providing for the limitation on the dissemination of criminal history record information related to the possession of marijuana and the statute related to automatic sealing for mistaken identity or unauthorized use of identifying information. The bill also repeals the provisions related to the automatic and petition-based expungement of former marijuana offenses and instead provides for the sealing of such offenses. The bill also removes the provisions related to the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0555) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Criminal history record information; dissemination. [HB-2313]
Criminal history record information; dissemination. Allows criminal history record information to be disseminated to the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or his designee for individuals who are being evaluated by the Commissioner to determine the individual's sanity at the time of a criminal offense or capacity to stand trial for the purpose of placement, evaluation, treatment, or discharge planning.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0042) on 03/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Interjurisdictional compacts; criminal history record checks. [HB-2157]
Interjurisdictional compacts; criminal history record checks. Provides that when an interjurisdictional compact requires criminal history record checks as a condition of participation, the applicable health regulatory board shall require each applicant to submit to fingerprinting and provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded along with his fingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information.
Sponsored by: Rep. C. Matthew Fariss
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0118) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Criminal history record information; dissemination. [SB-1132]
Criminal history record information; dissemination. Allows criminal history record information to be disseminated to the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or his designee for individuals who are being evaluated by the Commissioner to determine the individual's sanity at the time of a criminal offense or capacity to stand trial for the purpose of placement, evaluation, treatment, or discharge planning.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Peake
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0043) on 03/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; threat assessment teams, powers and duties. [HB-1916]
Public institutions of higher education; threat assessment teams; powers and duties. Makes several changes to the powers and duties of the threat assessment team at each public institution of higher education, including requiring, upon a preliminary determination that an individual poses an articulable and significant threat of violence to others, each such team to (i) obtain any available criminal history record information and health records for such individual; (ii) notify in writing within 24 hours upon making such preliminary determination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amanda Batten
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0226) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Serv. [SB-1183]
Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Service, through Virginia Rap Back Service, for fingerprint-based criminal history record monitoring; penalty. Requires the Department of State Police to participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Next Generation Identification Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service, through the Virginia Rap Back Service, for the purpose of allowing those agencies and governmental entities that require a fingerprint-based criminal background check
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0041) on 03/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Child care; background checks for applicants for employment, etc. [HB-1825]
Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Stricken From Docket By Education (22-y 0-n) on 01/30/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Serv. [HB-1859]
Applicant Fingerprint Database; participation in FBI Next Generation Identification Rap Back Service, through Virginia Rap Back Service, for fingerprint-based criminal history record monitoring; penalty. Requires the Department of State Police to participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Next Generation Identification Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service, through the Virginia Rap Back Service, for the purpose of allowing those agencies and governmental entities that require a fingerprint-based criminal background check
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0040) on 03/17/2023