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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 SB 613."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 690"
citation: "Virginia HB 690 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37a51fa9-2ec3-43a9-8e44-af6c7404573e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB690"
source_hash: "60cf2d37f68e827c142dabcaf68ff517353ddfcad755e3f928d6951ff341620e"
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 690 (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 SB 613.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0202** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0202)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24108259D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB690S1)
3. **HB690ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB690ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103255D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB690)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N) — **110** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2025 in Education — **00** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 — **00** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103255D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025
- **2024-01-31** Continued to 2025 in Education
- **2024-02-05** Reconsidered by Education by voice vote
- **2024-02-05** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB690)
- **2024-02-23** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-29** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29** Committee substitute printed 24108259D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB690S1)
- **2024-03-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-03-04** Committee substitute agreed to 24108259D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-03-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB690S1 `substitution`
- **2024-03-04** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108259D-S1 (99-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-03-05** VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB690ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB690ER)
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 202 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0202)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37a51fa9-2ec3-43a9-8e44-af6c7404573e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).