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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1261: Juveniles; fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs, effective date.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1261 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Juveniles; fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs, effective date. Primary sponsor: Lamont Bagby (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (March 19, 2025): Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs of juveniles. Requires law-enforcement officers to obtain, electronically when possible, fingerprints, palm prints with accompanying distal prints, if available, and photographs of any juvenile taken into custody and charged with a delinquent act. The bill also requires such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be both filed with the Central Criminal Records Exchange and submitted electronically, when possible, to the State Police to be maintained in a confidential and secure area within the system in which the record is maintained that is inaccessible during routine use of such system. The bill further requires any electronic record of such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be destroyed as soon as possible after the State Police have been notified that a petition or warrant has not been filed against the juvenile. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to HB 2472.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lamont BagbyPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate14

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112)
  2. Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (Effective 07/01/26)
  3. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
  4. Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025
  5. Signed by President
  6. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261)
  7. Signed by Speaker
  8. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1261ER)
  9. Enrolled
  10. House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  11. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1261)
  12. Passed House with substitute (66-Y 29-N)

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source