Law-enforcement officers, certain; universal certification, necessary training.
Summary
Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of Criminal Justice Services and who is compliance with the minimum qualifications, (ii) who has not had a break in service of more than 24 months, and (iii) is leaving the transferring agency in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions shall be eligible for employment at any law-enforcement agency within the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions.Prior to any conditional offer of employment, the bill requires the hiring law-enforcement agency to request certain specified information from all prior law-enforcement agencies and to employ all reasonable means to obtain personnel records for law-enforcement officers transferring from an out-of-state or federal law-enforcement agency. The bill requires any out-of-state or federal law-enforcement agency that provides such information or personnel records to include a sworn declaration that the provided information or records are a true, correct, and complete response to such request. The bill provides that no law-enforcement officer shall be eligible for employment until the requested information is received by the hiring law-enforcement agency.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2024
Signed into Law
Apr 2024
Introduced Jan 8, 2024
Signed Apr 5, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Jan 30, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 28, 2024
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Jan 30, 2024
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
57
Key actions
17
Committee
11
Apr 5, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 581 (effective 7/1/24)
executive
Mar 26, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 25, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 25, 2024
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB207ER)
upper
Mar 9, 2024
Upper · Passed
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Mar 8, 2024
Legislature · Passed
Amended by conference committee
legislature
Mar 4, 2024
Committee
House requested conference committee
lower
Feb 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
lower
Jan 31, 2024
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 30, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 30, 2024
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (40-0)
senate
Jan 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Jan 10, 2024
Upper · Passed
Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
upper
Jan 8, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Danny Diggs
RRepublican
Co
Dave Marsden
DDemocratic
Co
Schuyler VanValkenburg
DDemocratic
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