HB577
Social work; applicants for licensure, criminal background check, report.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
April 1, 2026
House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
Chief Patron:
Jackie Glass (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103216D
- 01/13/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- 01/21/2026 - House: Assigned sub: Health Professions
- 02/04/2026 - House: Placed on Health and Human Services Agenda
- 02/04/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
- 02/05/2026 - House: House subcommittee offered
- 02/05/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2026 - House: Placed on Health and Human Services Agenda
- 02/10/2026 - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2026 - House: Committee substitute printed 26106090D-H1
- 02/12/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/13/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/13/2026 - House: committee substitute agreed to
- 02/13/2026 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/16/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/16/2026 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/16/2026 - House: Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/17/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/17/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/20/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26108952D-S1
- 03/09/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
- 03/09/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26109434D-S2
- 03/10/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 03/10/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/10/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute rejected (Voice Vote)
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/12/2026 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 1-N 0-A)
- 03/23/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
- 03/30/2026 - House: Enrolled
- 03/30/2026 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB577ER)
- 03/30/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/31/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/31/2026 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026
- 03/31/2026 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
- 04/01/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB577)
