republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1815.md

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Bill	Line of Duty Act; benefits for campus police and private police officers, definitions.	Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education and contributing private police departments, as those terms are defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any (i) private institution of higher education that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education or (ii) private police department that is not a contributing private police department. The bill requires each contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education and contributing private police department to pay its pro rata share of the initial costs to implement the bill, as determined by the Virginia Retirement System. This bill is identical to SB 1142.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1815	Virginia HB 1815 (2025)	bill		enacted	Ellen H. Campbell	7	37	10	2025-01-06	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/c21d9ca7-0020-4b62-9fa9-48913742b462	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1815	3f2fafb1809d17ffb44125ba0f1539faa243113b7e84fb9ab9b03554fcfbbef4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1815 (2025) — Line of Duty Act; benefits for campus police and private police officers, definitions.

Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education and contributing private police departments, as those terms are defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any (i) private institution of higher education that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education or (ii) private police department that is not a contributing private police department. The bill requires each contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education and contributing private police department to pay its pro rata share of the initial costs to implement the bill, as determined by the Virginia Retirement System. This bill is identical to SB 1142.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HMPPS Sub: Public Safety Amendments (committee substitute) — source
6. Public Safety Amendments (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ellen H. Campbell — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
• Eric R. Zehr — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• N. Baxter Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)
• Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100321D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100321D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Referred from Education and referred to Public Safety (Voice Vote) referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned PS sub: Public Safety referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (6-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-25 Assigned Approps sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Public Safety Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25100321D-E
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB1815)
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Courts of Justice Amendment rejected amendment-failure
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1815ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 204 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c21d9ca7-0020-4b62-9fa9-48913742b462. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).