Virginia House Bill 2402 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public employment; limitations on inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Prohibits state agencies and localities from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever been arrested or charged with, or convicted of, any crime. A prospective employee may not be asked if he has ever been arrested or charged with or convicted of any crime unless the inquiry takes place during or after a staff interview of the prospective employee. The prohibition does not apply to applications for employment with law-enforcement agencies or positions related to law-enforcement agencies. The prohibition also does not apply to applications for state agency positions designated as sensitive or to state agencies that are expressly permitted to inquire into an individual's criminal arrests or charges for employment purposes pursuant to any provision of federal or state law.

Public employment; limitations on inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding arrests.

Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]

Del. Glenn Davis [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in General Laws
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102917D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1505.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	2812.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2402
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2402+hil