                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACCESS TO MINOR&#8217;S RECORDS (§ 20-124.6)

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither parent, regardless of
whether such parent has custody, shall be denied access to the academic or
health records or records of a child day center or family day home of that
parent&#8217;s minor child, including any such records that are stored or
accessible from a secure website, unless otherwise ordered by the court for good
cause shown or pursuant to subsection B.

B. In the case of health records, access may also be denied if the minor&#8217;s
treating physician, clinical psychologist, clinical social worker, or licensed
professional counselor has made a part of the minor&#8217;s record a written
statement that, in the exercise of his professional judgment, the furnishing to
or review by the requesting parent of such health records would be reasonably
likely to cause substantial harm to the minor or another person. If a health
care entity denies a parental request for access to, or copies of, a
minor&#8217;s health record, the health care entity denying the request shall
comply with the provisions of subsection F of &#xA7; 32.1-127.1:03. The minor or
his parent, either or both, shall have the right to have the denial reviewed as
specified in subsection F of &#xA7; 32.1-127.1:03 to determine whether to make
the minor&#8217;s health record available to the requesting parent.

C. For the purposes of this section, the terms &#8220;health record&#8221; or
the plural thereof and &#8220;health care entity&#8221; mean the same as those
terms are defined in subsection B of &#xA7; 32.1-127.1:03 and the terms
&#8220;child day center&#8221; and &#8220;family day home&#8221; mean the same
as those terms are defined in &#xA7; 63.2-100.

HISTORY: 1994, c. 769; 2000, c. 485; 2005, cc. 181, 227; 2020, cc. 178, 945;
2022, c. 509; 2025, cc. 119, 131.