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Bill Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers, (ii) any sheriff, (iii) any police force, or (iv) the Department of State Police from establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. The bill also provides that the number of arrests made or summonses issued by a law-enforcement officer shall not be used as the sole criterion for evaluating the law-enforcement officer's job performance. This bill is identical to SB 327. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 HB 750 Virginia HB 750 (2022)
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Virginia HB 750 (2022) — Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition.

Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers, (ii) any sheriff, (iii) any police force, or (iv) the Department of State Police from establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. The bill also provides that the number of arrests made or summonses issued by a law-enforcement officer shall not be used as the sole criterion for evaluating the law-enforcement officer's job performance. This bill is identical to SB 327.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0208 (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB750ER (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102555D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 2-N) — 192 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Robert B. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102555D introduction
  • 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
  • 2022-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB750)
  • 2022-01-25 Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2022-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-01-28 Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 2-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-01 Read first time reading-1
  • 2022-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2022-02-03 Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2022-02-03 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2022-02-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2022-03-02 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
  • 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-03-08 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-03-10 Enrolled
  • 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB750ER)
  • 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-03-11 Signed by President
  • 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
  • 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
  • 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 208 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/019508b8-cd29-4908-896d-5bf095acad3a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).