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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Justice Services Board and its Committee on Training; citizen membership."
description: "Adds to both the Criminal Justice Services Board (the Board) and its Training Committee one citizen member representing community interests. The bill also replaces the member of the Board representing the Virginia Crime Prevention Association, which is no longer in existence, with a member representing the Virginia Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. The bill also directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, in consultation with the Governor, to review the current composition of the Board and develop a plan for restructuring the Board in order to improve its efficiency in carrying out its duties and to submit the plan by December 1, 2017, to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1951"
citation: "Virginia HB 1951 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Commonwealth Public Safety", "Criminal Procedure", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher K. Peace"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/921acf8a-1951-497a-a712-c6adc028b9aa"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1951"
source_hash: "9039afe5a0faf9380334ba2cc85fcc3550206383bfffb7d219d7582acc479c42"
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 1951 (2017) — Criminal Justice Services Board and its Committee on Training; citizen membership.
Adds to both the Criminal Justice Services Board (the Board) and its Training Committee one citizen member representing community interests. The bill also replaces the member of the Board representing the Virginia Crime Prevention Association, which is no longer in existence, with a member representing the Virginia Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. The bill also directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, in consultation with the Governor, to review the current composition of the Board and develop a plan for restructuring the Board in order to improve its efficiency in carrying out its duties and to submit the plan by December 1, 2017, to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0206)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1951ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1951ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104645D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1951H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103423D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1951)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **110** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **131** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **382** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **950** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Christopher K. Peace — primary (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103423D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 17104645D-H1
- **2017-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1951H1
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/921acf8a-1951-497a-a712-c6adc028b9aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).