---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conservators of the peace; search warrants, military criminal investigative organizations."
description: "Conservators of the peace; search warrants, military criminal investigative organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 801"
citation: "Virginia SB 801 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Surovell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-12-04"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0d5ad87-0a40-40db-89fe-9d54892163f8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB801"
source_hash: "94c7bebfe14f68d7e5c5364ac396d39d979ba56f97432ceed67f919e51eb9e5e"
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 801 (2023) — Conservators of the peace; search warrants, military criminal investigative organizations.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0108** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0108)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100006D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB801)
3. **SB801ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB801ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Surovell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100006D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-04** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB801)
- **2023-01-16** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB801ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB801ER)
- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 108 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0d5ad87-0a40-40db-89fe-9d54892163f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).