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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition."
+description: "Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers, (ii) any sheriff, (iii) any police force, or (iv) the Department of State Police from establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. The bill also provides that the number of arrests made or summonses issued by a law-enforcement officer shall not be used as the sole criterion for evaluating the law-enforcement officer's job performance. This bill is identical to SB 327."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 750"
+citation: "Virginia HB 750 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/019508b8-cd29-4908-896d-5bf095acad3a"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB750"
+source_hash: "ba77f7a1464281459e9c747cf1cb2c554ffdef609329adb7edbbebc0d281e646"
+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 HB 750 (2022) — Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition.
+
+Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers, (ii) any sheriff, (iii) any police force, or (iv) the Department of State Police from establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. The bill also provides that the number of arrests made or summonses issued by a law-enforcement officer shall not be used as the sole criterion for evaluating the law-enforcement officer's job performance. This bill is identical to SB 327.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0208** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0208)
+2. **HB750ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB750ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102555D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB750)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 2-N) — **19–2** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102555D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB750)
+- **2022-01-25** Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-01-28** Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-03** Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-03** VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2022-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-02** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-04** Passed by for the day
+- **2022-03-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB750ER)
+- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 208 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/019508b8-cd29-4908-896d-5bf095acad3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+