---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law-enforcement officers, retired sworn; purchase of service handguns or other weapons."
description: "Purchase of service handguns or other weapons by retired sworn law-enforcement officers. Removes the requirement that a sworn law-enforcement officer be employed in a full-time capacity at the time of his retirement to purchase his service handgun. This bill is identical to HB 1130."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 207"
citation: "Virginia SB 207 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e024af88-e6a8-4cfe-b12d-469c4fdc2e48"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB207"
source_hash: "6c2f5cd978ed33149fc647e13417528a8ece9491e52d8cb726845f84c49c2dc4"
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 207 (2022) — Law-enforcement officers, retired sworn; purchase of service handguns or other weapons.

Purchase of service handguns or other weapons by retired sworn law-enforcement officers. Removes the requirement that a sworn law-enforcement officer be employed in a full-time capacity at the time of his retirement to purchase his service handgun. This bill is identical to HB 1130.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0246** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0246)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102156D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB207)
3. **SB207ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB207ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102156D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Reported from Public Safety (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed House (99-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **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 246 (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/e024af88-e6a8-4cfe-b12d-469c4fdc2e48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).