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type: "Bill"
title: "State Police, Department of; purchase of handguns or other weapons of certain officers."
description: "Purchase of handguns or other weapons of certain officers; Department of State Police. Provides that the Department of State Police may allow the immediate survivor of any law-enforcement officer formerly employed by the Department who had at least 10 years of service with the Department and who died while receiving long-term disability payments to purchase his service handgun, with the approval of the Superintendent of State Police, at a price of $1. This bill is identical to HB 1300."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 86"
citation: "Virginia SB 86 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-30"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae604019-49b4-4327-9701-ad9d79b2b660"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB86"
source_hash: "91840e3594e66191944f163577c45a339f486c1c22a079225975114c6693fe35"
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 SB 86 (2026) — State Police, Department of; purchase of handguns or other weapons of certain officers.
Purchase of handguns or other weapons of certain officers; Department of State Police. Provides that the Department of State Police may allow the immediate survivor of any law-enforcement officer formerly employed by the Department who had at least 10 years of service with the Department and who died while receiving long-term disability payments to purchase his service handgun, with the approval of the Superintendent of State Police, at a price of $1. This bill is identical to HB 1300.
## 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/1082245.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217234.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1168674.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety — **200** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-30** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104010D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-12-30** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB86)
- **2026-01-20** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-20** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-21** Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-03** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13** Reported from Public Safety (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-18** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB86ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB86)
- **2026-02-18** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 286 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae604019-49b4-4327-9701-ad9d79b2b660`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).