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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Conservation police officers; external appointment."
+description: "Conservation police officers; external appointment. Removes a provision prohibiting the Director of the Department ofGame and Inland Fisheries from making an external appointment forany sworn law-enforcement position above the rank of conservationpolice officer. Current law requires that all promotions within theDepartment's sworn ranks be made from among existing sworn conservationpolice officers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 882"
+citation: "Virginia SB 882 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mamie E. Locke"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-04-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c3b0758-4a1e-4144-933a-81ca21d81036"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB882"
+source_hash: "1079238f9d94112f414996adfdb473c29c246de61f5ba4de9a26d130bf4d2f38"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 882 (2020) — Conservation police officers; external appointment.
+
+Conservation police officers; external appointment. Removes a provision prohibiting the Director of the Department ofGame and Inland Fisheries from making an external appointment forany sworn law-enforcement position above the rank of conservationpolice officer. Current law requires that all promotions within theDepartment's sworn ranks be made from among existing sworn conservationpolice officers.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0671)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB882ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB882ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB882)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB882)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) — **5–2** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 4-N) — **18–4** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N) — **62–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104881D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-14** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB882)
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
+- **2020-02-19** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-24** Passed House (63-Y 36-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N)
+- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB882ER)
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-10** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
+- **2020-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c3b0758-4a1e-4144-933a-81ca21d81036`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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