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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.
- CHAP0208 (committee substitute) — source
- HB750ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102555D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 2-N) — 19–2 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (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).