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Social work; licensure; criminal background check. Requires applicants for licensure as a baccalaureate social worker, master's social worker, or clinical social worker to provide fingerprints and personal identifying information for a criminal background check, directs the Central Criminal Records Exchange to disseminate criminal history record information obtained to the Board of Social Work, and establishes the process by which an applicant may obtain his criminal history record in the event that such applicant disputes the criminal history information on which a denial of licensure privilege is based. The bill removes the requirement that an individual's request for conviction data from the Central Criminal Records Exchange must be sworn to under oath and specifies that no criminal history record information obtained through a national background check may be further disseminated, even if such information is maintained in the records of a Commonwealth agency or entity.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Mar 12, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 1-N 0-A)
Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Read third time
Committee substitute rejected (Voice Vote)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
Committee substitute printed 26109434D-S2
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
Committee substitute printed 26108952D-S1
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
Read second time
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 26106090D-H1
Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (10-Y 0-N)
House subcommittee offered
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
Assigned sub: Health Professions
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103216D
Get a plain-English explanation of what this bill does, who it affects, and why it matters.
Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 1-N 0-A)
Jackie H. Glass