---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law-enforcement officer; change in definition, security division of Virginia Lottery."
description: "Law-enforcement officer; change in definition, security division of Virginia Lottery."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2166"
citation: "Virginia HB 2166 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commonwealth Public Safety", "Police"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/529a414f-05eb-4d26-9b7d-89386078ed5e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2166"
source_hash: "996536d8cc87870faae5b72405e6f905231d0fadc8c970e894d4a77b3ab61451"
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 2166 (2019) — Law-enforcement officer; change in definition, security division of Virginia Lottery.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0475)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2166ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2166ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101931D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2166)

## Votes

- Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nick Rush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101931D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Assigned App. sub: Compensation & Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 475 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/529a414f-05eb-4d26-9b7d-89386078ed5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).