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type: "Bill"
title: "Elections; preservation of order at the polls, powers of officers of election."
description: "Elections; preservation of order at the polls;powers of officers of election. Removes the power of officersof election, in the event that no law-enforcement officer is in attendance, to appoint a person who is not a law-enforcement officer to haveall the powers of a law-enforcement officer within the polling placeand the prohibited area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1111"
citation: "Virginia SB 1111 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-12-15"
last_action: "2021-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddd9aee3-0b29-4ddb-b5b9-d7874788fd1a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1111"
source_hash: "49b7e406cb7272b9be2dc6655e1c3e6f121d99b74cabc788fae085107c8613bd"
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 1111 (2021) — Elections; preservation of order at the polls, powers of officers of election.
Elections; preservation of order at the polls;powers of officers of election. Removes the power of officersof election, in the event that no law-enforcement officer is in attendance, to appoint a person who is not a law-enforcement officer to haveall the powers of a law-enforcement officer within the polling placeand the prohibited area.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0006** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0006)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101169D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1111)
3. **SB1111ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1111ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections — **00** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-12-15** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101169D `introduction`
- **2020-12-15** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB1111)
- **2021-01-19** Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections
- **2021-02-10** Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1111ER)
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
- **2021-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 6 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddd9aee3-0b29-4ddb-b5b9-d7874788fd1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).