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Bill Law-enforcement officers, certain; universal certification, necessary training. Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of Criminal Justice Services and who is compliance with the minimum qualifications, (ii) who has not had a break in service of more than 24 months, and (iii) is leaving the transferring agency in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions shall be eligible for employment at any law-enforcement agency within the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions.Prior to any conditional offer of employment, the bill requires the hiring law-enforcement agency to request certain specified information from all prior law-enforcement agencies and to employ all reasonable means to obtain personnel records for law-enforcement officers transferring from an out-of-state or federal law-enforcement agency. The bill requires any out-of-state or federal law-enforcement agency that provides such information or personnel records to include a sworn declaration that the provided information or records are a true, correct, and complete response to such request.  The bill provides that no law-enforcement officer shall be eligible for employment until the requested information is received by the hiring law-enforcement agency. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2024 SB 207 Virginia SB 207 (2024)
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Virginia SB 207 (2024) — Law-enforcement officers, certain; universal certification, necessary training.

Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of Criminal Justice Services and who is compliance with the minimum qualifications, (ii) who has not had a break in service of more than 24 months, and (iii) is leaving the transferring agency in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions shall be eligible for employment at any law-enforcement agency within the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions.Prior to any conditional offer of employment, the bill requires the hiring law-enforcement agency to request certain specified information from all prior law-enforcement agencies and to employ all reasonable means to obtain personnel records for law-enforcement officers transferring from an out-of-state or federal law-enforcement agency. The bill requires any out-of-state or federal law-enforcement agency that provides such information or personnel records to include a sworn declaration that the provided information or records are a true, correct, and complete response to such request.  The bill provides that no law-enforcement officer shall be eligible for employment until the requested information is received by the hiring law-enforcement agency.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0581 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 24106122D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee substitute printed 24108223D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Conference substitute printed 24109136D-S3 (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB207ER (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB207S2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
  • Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
  • House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — 0–40 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

  • J.D. "Danny" Diggs — primary (person)
  • David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
  • Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103540D filing, introduction
  • 2024-01-08 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
  • 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB207)
  • 2024-01-24 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2024-01-24 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-01-24 Committee substitute printed 24106122D-S1 substitution
  • 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-01-29 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2024-01-29 Committee substitute agreed to 24106122D-S1 substitution
  • 2024-01-29 Passed by for the day
  • 2024-01-30 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-01-30 Floor substitute printed 24106602D-S2 (Surovell)
  • 2024-01-30 Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-01-30 Committee substitute rejected 24106122D-S1
  • 2024-01-30 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2024-01-30 Substitute by Senator Surovell agreed to 24106602D-S2
  • 2024-01-30 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB207S2
  • 2024-01-31 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB207S2)
  • 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
  • 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
  • 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
  • 2024-02-23 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-23 Committee substitute printed 24108223D-H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB207H1)
  • 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
  • 2024-02-28 Committee substitute agreed to 24108223D-H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB207H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-28 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2024-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2024-03-01 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
  • 2024-03-04 House insisted on substitute substitution
  • 2024-03-04 House requested conference committee referral-committee
  • 2024-03-05 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2024-03-05 Senators: Surovell, Boysko, Diggs
  • 2024-03-06 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2024-03-06 Delegates: Sullivan, Clark, Wilt
  • 2024-03-08 Amended by conference committee
  • 2024-03-08 Conference substitute printed 24109136D-S3
  • 2024-03-09 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2024-03-09 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-03-09 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2024-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB207S3)
  • 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB207ER) 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
  • 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
  • 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 581 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
  • 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581)
  • 2024-04-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB207ER)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/beb47b70-9220-4041-be7f-acf2bb631230. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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