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type: "Bill"
title: "Line of Duty Act; benefits for campus police and private police officers, definitions."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1815"
citation: "Virginia HB 1815 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellen H. Campbell"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 37
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c21d9ca7-0020-4b62-9fa9-48913742b462"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1815"
source_hash: "3f2fafb1809d17ffb44125ba0f1539faa243113b7e84fb9ab9b03554fcfbbef4"
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 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](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013102.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071960.PDF)
3. **Courts of Justice Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046324.HTML)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1035456.PDF)
5. **HMPPS Sub: Public Safety Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1027017.HTML)
6. **Public Safety Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1027268.HTML)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060921.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c21d9ca7-0020-4b62-9fa9-48913742b462`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).