republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-145.md

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Bill	Special conservators of peace; armed security officer registration.	Criminal Justice Services Board; special conservatorsof the peace and private security services business personnel; patrolrifle training. Requires the compulsory minimum, entry-level,and in-service training standards for armed special conservatorsof the peace established by the Criminal Justice Services Board toinclude patrol rifle classroom training. The bill also requires theregulations adopted by the Board establishing training standardsfor persons employed by private security services businesses to allowa special conservator of the peace who (i) has completed entry-levelhandgun training for special conservators of the peace, (ii) is employedby an institution of higher education that has a memorandum of understandingwith the local law-enforcement agency, and (iii) has the approvalof the attorney for the Commonwealth responsible for the jurisdictionwhere he is employed to complete the entry-level patrol rifle classroomtraining required as part of the firearm training for private securityservices business personnel who carry or have immediate access toa firearm while on duty regardless of whether such individual hassuccessfully completed security officer handgun training.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 145	Virginia SB 145 (2024)	bill		enacted	Christopher T. Head	4	35	7	2024-01-05	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/c628bd66-e105-485b-83cc-e9b0f26ccf88	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB145	d3d0d958e5781c42fe5d3d4a4633de4ec3b079de22e32a429e41c8da50c5a7b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 145 (2024) — Special conservators of peace; armed security officer registration.

Criminal Justice Services Board; special conservatorsof the peace and private security services business personnel; patrolrifle training. Requires the compulsory minimum, entry-level,and in-service training standards for armed special conservatorsof the peace established by the Criminal Justice Services Board toinclude patrol rifle classroom training. The bill also requires theregulations adopted by the Board establishing training standardsfor persons employed by private security services businesses to allowa special conservator of the peace who (i) has completed entry-levelhandgun training for special conservators of the peace, (ii) is employedby an institution of higher education that has a memorandum of understandingwith the local law-enforcement agency, and (iii) has the approvalof the attorney for the Commonwealth responsible for the jurisdictionwhere he is employed to complete the entry-level patrol rifle classroomtraining required as part of the firearm training for private securityservices business personnel who carry or have immediate access toa firearm while on duty regardless of whether such individual hassuccessfully completed security officer handgun training.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0577 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106206D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100483D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB145ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Public Safety (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Referred from Courts of Justice — 0–0 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100483D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-01-15 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-15 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB145)
• 2024-01-31 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24106206D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB145S1)
• 2024-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-02 Committee substitute agreed to 24106206D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB145S1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Referred from Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Public Safety (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB145ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB145ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 577 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c628bd66-e105-485b-83cc-e9b0f26ccf88. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).