2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

HB2556: Address Confidentiality Program; removal of Program participant, penalty.

Legislative Summary

Department of Law; Address Confidentiality Program; removal of Program participant; penalty. Permits the Office of the Attorney General to cancel a participant's certification in the Address Confidentiality Program if such Program participant (i) has reached the age of 18, is not incapacitated, and did not submit recertification for participation in the Program within 60 days of his eighteenth birthday or (ii) initiates any legal action against the Office of the Attorney General. The bill clarifies that participation in the Program shall not affect custody or visitation orders in effect prior to or during Program participation. Finally, the bill penalizes any individual who knowingly discloses or publishes a Program participant's confidential address or any other confidential information with intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass such Program participant or any other person.

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Bill History

1/12/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103905D
House of Delegates
1/12/2025
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
House of Delegates
1/13/2025
Impact statement from VCSC (HB2556)
House of Delegates
1/17/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2556)
House of Delegates
1/25/2025
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
House of Delegates
1/27/2025
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N)
House of Delegates
1/29/2025
Reported from Courts of Justice and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 1-N)
House of Delegates
2/4/2025
Left in Appropriations
House of Delegates

Roll Call Votes

Reported from Courts of Justice and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 1-N)
1/29/2025
21
Yea
1
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N)
1/27/2025
7
Yea
1
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/12/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Committee
Appropriations(House of Delegates)

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/12/202527.6 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/17/2025116.1 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/13/202536.9 KB