---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Justice Services, Department of; powers and duties, training for law-enforcement personnel."
description: "Criminal Justice Services, Department of; powers and duties, training for law-enforcement personnel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2250"
citation: "Virginia HB 2250 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cordoza"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cfbadbd-0842-4a7f-bc09-a4404dfffad6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2250"
source_hash: "949f37e7e77a1294e581c11f07223183df1cd85fc42c00c8c7f75262583c6681"
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 2250 (2023) — Criminal Justice Services, Department of; powers and duties, training for law-enforcement personnel.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0331** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0331)
2. **HB2250ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2250ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102683D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2250)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cordoza — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102683D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB2250)
- **2023-01-24** Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2250ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB2250ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 331 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5cfbadbd-0842-4a7f-bc09-a4404dfffad6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).