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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 HB 750. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 327 | Virginia SB 327 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 327 (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 HB 750.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0209 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103905D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22103905D-E (committee substitute) — source
- SB327ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103905D
introduction - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
referral-committee - 2022-01-24 Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-01-25 Passed by for the day
- 2022-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-27 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-01-27 Reading of amendments waived
- 2022-01-27 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2022-01-27 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB327E
- 2022-01-27 Printed as engrossed 22103905D-E
- 2022-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB327E)
- 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-22 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Public Safety
referral-committee - 2022-02-25 Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-03-02 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-02 Passed House (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
passage - 2022-03-02 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 2022-03-07 Enrolled
- 2022-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB327ER)
- 2022-03-08 Signed by President
- 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
- 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 209 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd53386b-4efc-4bfc-ab2d-7c9d97ecd5be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).