HB2609
School resource officers; compulsory minimum training standards.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Department of Criminal Justice Services; school resource officers; school administrators; training.
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 ... (More) 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 SB 1130. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2019 - House: Presented and ordered printed 19103503D
- 01/09/2019 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/18/2019 - House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/21/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2609)
- 01/25/2019 - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (9-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2019 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/30/2019 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (19-Y 3-N)
- 01/30/2019 - House: Committee substitute printed 19105909D-H1
- 01/31/2019 - House: Read first time
- 02/01/2019 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/01/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2609H1)
- 02/04/2019 - House: Read second time
- 02/04/2019 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 19105909D-H1
- 02/04/2019 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2609H1
- 02/05/2019 - House: Read third time and passed House (76-Y 22-N)
- 02/05/2019 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (76-Y 22-N)
- 02/06/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/14/2019 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2019 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/18/2019 - Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2019 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107281D-S1
- 02/19/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19107281D-S1
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Amendment by Senator Stanley agreed to
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment HB2609S1
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/2019 - House: Senate substitute with amendment rejected by House 19107281D-S1 (0-Y 99-N)
- 02/21/2019 - House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N)
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/21/2019 - House: House acceded to request
- 02/21/2019 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/21/2019 - House: Delegates: Jones, J.C., Bell, Richard P., Leftwich
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Senators: Carrico, Locke, Suetterlein
- 02/22/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2609S1)
- 02/22/2019 - Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 02/22/2019 - Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/22/2019 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/2019 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N)
- 02/22/2019 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 2-N)
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Conference report rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 02/23/2019 - House: House requested second conference committee
- 02/23/2019 - House: Second conferees appointed by House
- 02/23/2019 - House: Delegates: Jones, J.C., Bell, Richard P., Leftwich
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Senate acceded to request for second conference committee (34-Y 6-N)
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Second conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Senators: Carrico, Locke, Suetterlein
- 02/23/2019 - House: Second Conference Committee substitute printed 19107733D-H2
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/24/2019 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 3-N)
- 02/24/2019 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (93-Y 3-N)
- 03/07/2019 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2019 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2609ER)
- 03/07/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2609ER)
- 03/11/2019 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- 03/11/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/18/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 487 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/18/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487)