School resource officers; compulsory minimum training standards.
Summary
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
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Jan 9, 2019
Signed Mar 18, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 19, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
41
Key actions
18
Committee
14
Amendments
2
Mar 18, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 487 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 24, 2019
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 3-N)
lower
Feb 23, 2019
Lower · Passed
Second Conference Committee substitute printed 19107733D-H2
lower
Feb 23, 2019
Lower · Passed
House requested second conference committee
lower
Feb 22, 2019
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by temporarily
upper
Feb 22, 2019
Legislature · Passed
Amended by conference committee
legislature
Feb 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate requested conference committee
upper
Feb 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment HB2609S1
upper
Feb 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
Amendment by Senator Stanley agreed to
upper
Feb 21, 2019
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 20, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 20, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19107281D-S1
upper
Feb 19, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Feb 14, 2019
Committee
Rereferred to Finance
upper
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (76-Y 22-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2609H1
lower
Feb 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19105909D-H1
lower
Feb 1, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 18, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 9, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 9, 2019
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 19103503D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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