republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1369.md

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Bill	Criminal justice training academies; curriculum.	Criminal justice training academies; curriculum. Provides that an approved criminal justice training academy may utilize an alternative curriculum and lesson plans that meet or exceed the compulsory minimum training standards without seeking a waiver from the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Under current law, the Department is required to develop a uniform curriculum to be used at all criminal justice training academies unless a waiver to the uniform curriculum is granted by the Department.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1369	Virginia HB 1369 (2024)	bill		enacted	Debra D. Gardner	4	32	7	2024-01-15	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/78e81bfa-4ead-4965-9c5a-45a1c94cbe91	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1369	05d68d75a7547c3edd99b25b915f66460405796fa79efd956473ae90bce1437a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1369 (2024) — Criminal justice training academies; curriculum.

Criminal justice training academies; curriculum. Provides that an approved criminal justice training academy may utilize an alternative curriculum and lesson plans that meet or exceed the compulsory minimum training standards without seeking a waiver from the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Under current law, the Department is required to develop a uniform curriculum to be used at all criminal justice training academies unless a waiver to the uniform curriculum is granted by the Department.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0556 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1369ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24104550D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24104550D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Referred from Courts of Justice — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra D. Gardner — primary (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-15 Presented and ordered printed 24104550D introduction
• 2024-01-15 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB1369)
• 2024-01-26 Referred from Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Assigned PS sub: Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-07 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-07 Engrossed by House as amended HB1369E
• 2024-02-07 Printed as engrossed 24104550D-E
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB1369E)
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1369ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB1369ER)
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 556 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78e81bfa-4ead-4965-9c5a-45a1c94cbe91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).