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type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; school resource officers and school security officers, data."
description: "Public schools; school resource officers andschool security officers; data. Requires the Department of CriminalJustice Services, in coordination with the Department of Educationand the Department of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report,and publish data related to incidents involving students and schoolresource officers or school security officers. The bill also requiresthe Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to analyze and disseminatesubmitted data."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 271"
citation: "Virginia HB 271 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schuyler T. VanValkenburg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2019-12-30"
last_action: "2020-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31a9ede5-5ea6-4364-aca0-b566b2017455"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB271"
source_hash: "e170f9ee99ebe922cf28509275d59ff50246ecb8377d3f707741ddf4ccf3de61"
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 271 (2020) — Public schools; school resource officers and school security officers, data.
Public schools; school resource officers andschool security officers; data. Requires the Department of CriminalJustice Services, in coordination with the Department of Educationand the Department of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report,and publish data related to incidents involving students and schoolresource officers or school security officers. The bill also requiresthe Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to analyze and disseminatesubmitted data.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1039)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1039)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB271ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB271ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB271E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB271E)
4. **Engrossed by House as amended HB271E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB271)
## Votes
- Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N) — **098** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendments (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 1-N) — **51** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 3-N) — **953** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N) — **944** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-12-30** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102227D `introduction`
- **2019-12-30** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education with amendments (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended HB271E
- **2020-02-03** Printed as engrossed 20102227D-E
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N)
- **2020-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB271E)
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-02-21** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-21** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2020-02-21** Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 99-N)
- **2020-02-25** VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N)
- **2020-02-27** Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-27** Senate requested conference committee
- **2020-02-28** House acceded to request
- **2020-02-28** Conferees appointed by House
- **2020-03-02** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2020-03-05** Amended by conference committee
- **2020-03-05** Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 3-N)
- **2020-03-05** VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 3-N)
- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-18** Enrolled
- **2020-03-18** Signed by President
- **2020-03-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB271ER)
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- **2020-03-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1039 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31a9ede5-5ea6-4364-aca0-b566b2017455`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).