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Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; localities may establish, duties, effective date.

Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers and civilian employees; (ii) investigate and issue findings on incidents, including the use of force by a law-enforcement officer, death or serious injury to any person held in custody, serious abuse of authority or misconduct, allegedly discriminatory stops, and other incidents regarding the conduct of law-enforcement officers or civilian employees; (iii) make binding disciplinary determinations in cases that involve serious breaches of departmental and professional standards; (iv) investigate policies, practices, and procedures of law-enforcement agencies and make recommendations regarding changes to such policies, practices, and procedures; (v) review all investigations conducted internally by law-enforcement agencies and issue findings regarding the accuracy, completeness, and impartiality of such investigations and the sufficiency of any discipline resulting from such investigations; (vi) request reports of the annual expenditures of law-enforcement agencies and make budgetary recommendations; (vii) make public reports on the activities of the law-enforcement civilian oversight body; and (viii) undertake any other duties as reasonably necessary for the law-enforcement civilian oversight body to effectuate its lawful purpose to effectively oversee the law-enforcement agencies as authorized by the locality. Such oversight bodies are not authorized to oversee sheriff's departments. The bill provides that a law-enforcement officer who is subject to a binding disciplinary determination may file a grievance requesting a final hearing pursuant to the locality's local grievance procedures. The bill also provides that a retired law-enforcement officer may serve on such law-enforcement civilian oversight body as an advisory, nonvoting ex officio member. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021, and is identical to HB 5055.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020specialI

SB 5035

Virginia SB 5035 (2020specialI)

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2020-08-14

2020-10-28

openstates

ocd-bill/49231dcb-8844-44b7-867e-a3265498d8d5

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+SB5035

1573151b1160fda903c494942eb268656f461702c0f03236a0b989b50cc34fb1

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

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Virginia SB 5035 (2020specialI) — Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; localities may establish, duties, effective date.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB5035ER) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB5035H1) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB5035S1) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB5035S2) (committee substitute) — source
SB5035S3 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 6-N) — 8–6 (pass) · upper
Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 17-N) — 21–17 (pass) · upper
Senate acceded to request (22-Y 14-N) — 22–14 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 46-N) — 50–46 (pass) · lower
Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 15-N) — 20–15 (pass) · upper
House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 37-N) — 1–37 (fail) · upper
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 5-N) — 11–5 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Agreed To (53-Y 35-N) — 52–35 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-08-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200588D introduction
2020-08-14 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
2020-08-20 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-08-20 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 6-N) committee-passage
2020-08-20 Committee substitute printed 20200879D-S1 substitution
2020-08-20 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
2020-08-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB5035S1)
2020-09-03 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-09-03 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 5-N) committee-passage
2020-09-03 Committee substitute printed 20201005D-S2 substitution
2020-09-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB5035S2)
2020-09-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-09-10 Read second time reading-2
2020-09-10 Committee substitute from Judiciary rejected 20200902D-S1s4410
2020-09-10 Committee substitute from Finance and Appropriations agreed to 20201005D-S2
2020-09-10 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB5035S2
2020-09-15 Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 15-N) passage, reading-3
2020-09-17 Placed on Calendar
2020-09-17 Read first time reading-1
2020-09-17 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
2020-09-21 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
2020-09-21 Committee substitute printed 20201228D-H1 substitution
2020-09-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB5035H1)
2020-09-24 Read second time reading-2
2020-09-25 Read third time reading-3
2020-09-25 Committee substitute agreed to 20201228D-H1
2020-09-25 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB5035H1
2020-09-25 Passed House with substitute (51-Y 46-N) passage
2020-09-25 VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 46-N)
2020-10-02 House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 37-N)
2020-10-07 House insisted on substitute
2020-10-07 House requested conference committee
2020-10-07 Senate acceded to request (22-Y 14-N)
2020-10-07 Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-10-07 Conferees appointed by House
2020-10-14 Amended by conference committee
2020-10-14 Conference substitute printed 20201370D-S3
2020-10-14 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 17-N)
2020-10-14 Conference report agreed to by House (53-Y 35-N)
2020-10-14 VOTE: Agreed To (53-Y 35-N)
2020-10-16 Enrolled
2020-10-16 Signed by President
2020-10-16 Signed by Speaker
2020-10-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB5035ER)
2020-10-21 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
2020-10-21 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
2020-10-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 30 (Effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49231dcb-8844-44b7-867e-a3265498d8d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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