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Bill School security officers; employment by private or religious schools, carrying a firearm. School security officers; employment by private or religious schools, carrying a firearm. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 1656 Virginia HB 1656 (2019)
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Commonwealth Public Safety
Crimes and Offenses Generally
Education
Weapons
enacted
Mark L. Cole
3 15 6 2018-11-29 2019-02-21 openstates ocd-bill/59ef8bdc-88a1-4561-b238-083bacf13453 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1656 44fd6d1b878d74810389fd4f5907263fa43a5f5bc2f68fcb45f08e6f56f630cb 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Virginia HB 1656 (2019) — School security officers; employment by private or religious schools, carrying a firearm.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1656ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100833D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Courts of Justice — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 100 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate — 346 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House — 7816 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
  • John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-11-29 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100833D introduction
  • 2018-11-29 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2019-01-11 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-01-25 Read third time and passed House (78-Y 16-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2019-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2019-01-28 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2019-02-11 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-02-13 Enrolled
  • 2019-02-13 Signed by Speaker
  • 2019-02-14 Signed by President
  • 2019-02-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
  • 2019-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
  • 2019-02-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 120 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59ef8bdc-88a1-4561-b238-083bacf13453. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).