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HB1414Introduced in the House of Delegates

Children; certain injuries to be reported by physicians, etc., penalties for failure to report.

Passed

Introduced by Delores McQuinn, District 81

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported by physicians, nurses, teachers, etc.; penalties for failure to report. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person required to file a report, pursuant to relevant law, who fails to do so as soon as possible, but not longer than 24 hours after having reason to suspect a reportable offense of child abuse or neglect where such reportable offense is alleged to have occurred at a private or state-operated hospital, institution, or facility to which children have been committed or where children have been placed for care and treatment. The bill also provides that a second or subsequent conviction is a Class 6 felony. The bill further expands the mandatory reporting requirements for certain enumerated persons in their professional or official capacities to include certain offenses related to children and certain obscenity and related offenses and applies all such mandatory reporting requirements to all public and private school athletics program coaches, directors, and adult volunteers, including those associated with interscholastic teams and clubs. Under current law, the mandatory reporting requirements apply to such enumerated persons who suspect that a child is an abused or neglected child and to public or private sports organization or team athletic coaches, directors, or adult volunteers.

Where it stands

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845)

April 13, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

4 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

7 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Senate substitute agreed to by House (92-Y 6-N 0-A) · March 12, 2026

92

Yes

6

No

1

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

What do people think?

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See how each delegate voted

DelegateDistrictVote
Patrick Hope1Yes
Adele McClure2Yes
Alfonso Lopez3Yes
Charniele Herring4Yes
Kirk McPike5Yes
Richard Sullivan6Yes
Karen Keys-Gamarra7Yes
Irene Shin8Yes
Karrie Delaney9Yes
Dan Helmer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Presented and ordered printed 26105664D

  2. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

  3. Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (1/23/2026 3:14 pm)

  4. Assigned HCJ sub: Criminal

  5. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1414)

  6. House subcommittee offered

  7. Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 3-N)

  8. Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 2-N)

  9. Committee substitute printed 26106738D-H1

  10. Read first time

  11. Floor offered Delegate McQuinn Amendments

  12. Read second time

  13. committee substitute agreed to

  14. Delegate McQuinn Floor amendments agreed to

  15. Engrossed by House - committee substitute as amended

  16. Read third time and passed House (91-Y 5-N 0-A)

  17. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1414)

  18. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

  19. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

  20. Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

  21. Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (3/2/2026 8:52 am)

  22. Committee substitute printed 26108938D-S1

  23. Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (3/3/2026 3:52 pm)

  24. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1414)

  25. Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)

  26. Rules suspended

  27. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)

  28. Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

  29. Read third time

  30. Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote)

  31. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute

  32. Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N 0-A)

  33. Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  34. Passed by for the day

  35. Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  36. Reconsideration of committee substitute agreed to (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  37. Committee substitute rejected (Voice Vote)

  38. Floor offered Senator Perry Substitute

  39. Reading of substitute waived

  40. Senator Perry Substitute agreed to

  41. Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  42. Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (3/12/2026 8:30 am)

  43. Senate substitute agreed to by House (92-Y 6-N 0-A)

  44. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1414)

  45. Enrolled

  46. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1414ER)

  47. Signed by President

  48. Signed by Speaker

  49. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026

  50. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  51. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1414)

  52. Approved by Governor-Chapter 845 (effective 7/1/2026)

  53. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845)

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