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type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions; campus safety, governing board of certain educational institutions."
description: "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 HB 690."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 613"
citation: "Virginia SB 613 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc503856-cab8-4f74-b78b-4c0c9fa16c06"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB613"
source_hash: "cba2bcf4d68cca04d821ea250d4c28cd5947813f07939ed7b4938d447af64a56"
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 613 (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 HB 690.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0009** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0009)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103138D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB613)
3. **SB613ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB613ER)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103138D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Read third time and passed Senate (39-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 on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB613)
- **2024-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB613ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House reprinted (SB613ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB613ER)
- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 9 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc503856-cab8-4f74-b78b-4c0c9fa16c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).