republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-882.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Conservation police officers; external appointment.	Conservation police officers; external appointment. Removes a provision prohibiting the Director of the Department ofGame and Inland Fisheries from making an external appointment forany sworn law-enforcement position above the rank of conservationpolice officer. Current law requires that all promotions within theDepartment's sworn ranks be made from among existing sworn conservationpolice officers.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 882	Virginia SB 882 (2020)	bill		enacted	Mamie E. Locke	3	24	6	2020-01-08	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/4c3b0758-4a1e-4144-933a-81ca21d81036	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB882	1079238f9d94112f414996adfdb473c29c246de61f5ba4de9a26d130bf4d2f38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 882 (2020) — Conservation police officers; external appointment.

Conservation police officers; external appointment. Removes a provision prohibiting the Director of the Department ofGame and Inland Fisheries from making an external appointment forany sworn law-enforcement position above the rank of conservationpolice officer. Current law requires that all promotions within theDepartment's sworn ranks be made from among existing sworn conservationpolice officers.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB882ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB882) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 4-N) — 18–4 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N) — 62–36 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104881D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-20 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB882)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed House (63-Y 36-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB882ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-10 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c3b0758-4a1e-4144-933a-81ca21d81036. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).