republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-690.md

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Bill	Higher educational institutions; campus safety, governing board of certain educational institutions.	Institutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of certain educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized. Authorizes the governing board of certain educational institutions, including the A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the New College Institute, the Roanoke Higher Education Authority, the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, to establish and maintain a campus security department and to employ security personnel. Under current law, the governing board of any such educational institution is only authorized to contract for security services. This bill is identical to SB 613.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 690	Virginia HB 690 (2024)	bill		enacted	Israel D. O'Quinn	4	38	9	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/37a51fa9-2ec3-43a9-8e44-af6c7404573e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB690	60cf2d37f68e827c142dabcaf68ff517353ddfcad755e3f928d6951ff341620e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 690 (2024) — Higher educational institutions; campus safety, governing board of certain educational institutions.

Institutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of certain educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized. Authorizes the governing board of certain educational institutions, including the A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the New College Institute, the Roanoke Higher Education Authority, the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, to establish and maintain a campus security department and to employ security personnel. Under current law, the governing board of any such educational institution is only authorized to contract for security services. This bill is identical to SB 613.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0202 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108259D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB690ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103255D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to 2025 in Education — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103255D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025
• 2024-01-31 Continued to 2025 in Education
• 2024-02-05 Reconsidered by Education by voice vote
• 2024-02-05 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB690)
• 2024-02-23 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Committee substitute printed 24108259D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB690S1)
• 2024-03-04 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 24108259D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB690S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108259D-S1 (99-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-03-05 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB690ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB690ER)
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 202 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0202)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37a51fa9-2ec3-43a9-8e44-af6c7404573e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).