---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Resource Officer Grants Program and Fund; awarding grants."
description: "School Resource Officer Grants Program and Fund; awarding grants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1691"
citation: "Virginia HB 1691 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greenhalgh"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 47
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16bc21a7-14f7-4bae-b88c-fbcf530fa0a6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1691"
source_hash: "e67c296668a758c9c97f4ddf555f07015dcf8a6bb22b368135b90b2e57721de1"
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 1691 (2023) — School Resource Officer Grants Program and Fund; awarding grants.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0609** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0609)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23106550D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1691S1)
3. **HB1691ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1691ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101307D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1691)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 96-N 1-A) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (34-Y 6-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education (12-Y 9-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 43-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Greenhalgh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101307D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB1691)
- **2023-01-23** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- **2023-01-25** Reported from Education (12-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Committee substitute printed 23106550D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-09** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-14** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1691S1)
- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-15** Committee substitute agreed to 23106550D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-15** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1691S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-15** Passed Senate with substitute (34-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Senate substitute rejected by House 23106550D-S1 (1-Y 96-N 1-A)
- **2023-02-17** VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 96-N 1-A)
- **2023-02-20** Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-20** Senate requested conference committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-21** House acceded to request
- **2023-02-21** Conferees appointed by House
- **2023-02-21** Delegates: Greenhalgh, Davis, Simonds
- **2023-02-22** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2023-02-22** Senators: Hashmi, Locke, Suetterlein
- **2023-02-23** Amended by conference committee
- **2023-02-24** Conference report agreed to by House (51-Y 43-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 43-N)
- **2023-02-24** Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 4-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1691ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB1691ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16bc21a7-14f7-4bae-b88c-fbcf530fa0a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).