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2012 SESSION
HB 771 Campus police officers; included in definition of law-enforcement officers.
Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Law-enforcement officers; campus police officers. Provides that campus police officers, as appointed by public and private institutions of higher education, are included within the definition of law-enforcement officer. The bill exempts campus police from undergoing a background check when purchasing a firearm, gives campus police the same authority to make arrests without a warrant as other law-enforcement officers, includes the children and spouses of campus police in the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program, includes such officers in the Blue Alert Program, and adds campus police employed by a public institution to the list of officers entitled to the hypertension/heart disease and infectious disease presumptions under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/12 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100761D pdf | impact statement
- 02/27/12 Senate: Committee substitute printed 12105653D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/09/12 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB771ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/18/12 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB771ER2) pdf
- 04/18/12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/12 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100761D
- 01/11/12 House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
- 01/18/12 House: Assigned MPPS sub: #3
- 02/01/12 House: Assigned MPPS sub: #2
- 02/02/12 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/12 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/03/12 House: Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety (20-Y 2-N)
- 02/03/12 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/06/12 House: Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
- 02/09/12 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/12 House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/12 House: Read first time
- 02/13/12 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/14/12 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/14/12 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/15/12 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/15/12 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/27/12 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/12 Senate: Committee substitute printed 12105653D-S1
- 02/27/12 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/29/12 Senate: Reported from Finance (13-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/12 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/12 Senate: Read third time
- 03/02/12 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/02/12 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 12105653D-S1
- 03/02/12 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB771S1
- 03/02/12 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/12 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/06/12 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/07/12 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 12105653D-S1 (97-Y 1-N)
- 03/07/12 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 1-N)
- 03/09/12 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/12 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB771ER)
- 03/09/12 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/12 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/09/12 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/17/12 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/18/12 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (94-Y 1-N)
- 04/18/12 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (94-Y 1-N)
- 04/18/12 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 0-N)
- 04/18/12 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/18/12 House: Reenrolled
- 04/18/12 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB771ER2)
- 04/18/12 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/18/12 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/18/12 House: Enacted, Chapter 776 (effective 7/1/12)
- 04/18/12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776)