republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2609.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School resource officers; compulsory minimum training standards."
description: "Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (Department) to establish and every full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer employed as a school resource officer after July 1, 2020, to comply with compulsory minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers serving as school resource officers. The bill requires the training provided by the Department pursuant to such standards to be specific to the role and responsibility of a law-enforcement officer working with students in a school environment and to be available throughout the Commonwealth. The bill requires each school board to ensure that every public school it supervises employs at least one school administrator who has completed, either in-person or online, school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety, unless such training is not available online. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2609"
citation: "Virginia HB 2609 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commonwealth Public Safety", "Education", "Police"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerrauld C. \"Jay\" Jones"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 14
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58e387b1-426f-4a7c-8c64-f24374dba55e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2609"
source_hash: "00297e898618b957d1cdc6df706317baea321407031e7975ef90763bfe8077cb"
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 2609 (2019) — School resource officers; compulsory minimum training standards.

Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (Department) to establish and every full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer employed as a school resource officer after July 1, 2020, to comply with compulsory minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers serving as school resource officers. The bill requires the training provided by the Department pursuant to such standards to be specific to the role and responsibility of a law-enforcement officer working with students in a school environment and to be available throughout the Commonwealth. The bill requires each school board to ensure that every public school it supervises employs at least one school administrator who has completed, either in-person or online, school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety, unless such training is not available online. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0487)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2609ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2609ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105909D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2609H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19103503D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2609)
5. **House: Second Conference Committee substitute printed 19107733D-H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2609H2)
6. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2609ASE)
7. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107281D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2609S1)

## Votes

- Conference report agreed to by House — **93–3** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute — **19–3** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends laying on the table — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request for second conference committee — **34–6** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report rejected by Senate — **0–39** (fail) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance with substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **76–22** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate insisted on substitute with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute with amendment rejected by House 19107281D-S1 — **0–99** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — primary (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Presented and ordered printed 19103503D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19105909D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2609H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (76-Y 22-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 19107281D-S1
- **2019-02-20** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-21** Amendment by Senator Stanley agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-21** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment HB2609S1
- **2019-02-21** Senate substitute with amendment rejected by House 19107281D-S1 (0-Y 99-N)
- **2019-02-21** Senate requested conference committee
- **2019-02-21** House acceded to request
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-22** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-22** Passed by temporarily
- **2019-02-22** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-22** Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N)
- **2019-02-23** House requested second conference committee
- **2019-02-23** Second conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-23** Second conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-23** Second Conference Committee substitute printed 19107733D-H2
- **2019-02-24** Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 3-N)
- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 487 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58e387b1-426f-4a7c-8c64-f24374dba55e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).