---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human trafficking; training for law-enforcement personnel."
description: "Human trafficking training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards for law-enforcement personnel regarding the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking. This bill is identical to HB 283."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 467"
citation: "Virginia SB 467 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jill Holtzman Vogel"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/984cd885-4730-4ff7-8d8f-f8ef628d9dd6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB467"
source_hash: "64426aeaef18caa396d11942e59318838ffdd409de7fb11cc0b9a1c8fdb69cbd"
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 467 (2022) — Human trafficking; training for law-enforcement personnel.

Human trafficking training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards for law-enforcement personnel regarding the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking. This bill is identical to HB 283.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0046** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0046)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102983D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB467)
3. **SB467ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB467ER)

## Votes

- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jill Holtzman Vogel — primary (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102983D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB467)
- **2022-01-26** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **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 (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB467ER)
- **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
- **2022-04-01** Approved by Governor-Chapter 46 (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/984cd885-4730-4ff7-8d8f-f8ef628d9dd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).