republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-600.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School safety audits; law-enforcement officers."
description: "School safety audits; law-enforcement officers. Requires each local school board to require its schools to fullycollaborate with the chief law-enforcement officer of the localityor his designee when conducting required school safety audits. Undercurrent law, the division superintendent is required to make theresults of such audits available to the chief law-enforcement officerupon request, and his approval is not needed. The bill also requires that the completed walk-through checklist using the standardizedchecklist provided by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safetybe made available to the chief law-enforcement officer of the localityor his designee. Current law requires that the completed walk-throughchecklist be made available to the chief law-enforcement officeror his designee upon request."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 600"
citation: "Virginia SB 600 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ea1c503-41a5-4a9a-9db0-abb7a0927ba2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB600"
source_hash: "4ae4c9c9f6158770f52cb23ceec579f3bfc4204830a592cf23d53de1b9be0fdc"
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 600 (2022) — School safety audits; law-enforcement officers.

School safety audits; law-enforcement officers. Requires each local school board to require its schools to fullycollaborate with the chief law-enforcement officer of the localityor his designee when conducting required school safety audits. Undercurrent law, the division superintendent is required to make theresults of such audits available to the chief law-enforcement officerupon request, and his approval is not needed. The bill also requires that the completed walk-through checklist using the standardizedchecklist provided by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safetybe made available to the chief law-enforcement officer of the localityor his designee. Current law requires that the completed walk-throughchecklist be made available to the chief law-enforcement officeror his designee upon request.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0021** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0021)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103761D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB600)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22103761D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB600E)
4. **SB600ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB600ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103761D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB600)
- **2022-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-02-07** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-02-07** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB600E
- **2022-02-07** Printed as engrossed 22103761D-E
- **2022-02-08** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB600E)
- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB600ER)
- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ea1c503-41a5-4a9a-9db0-abb7a0927ba2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).