Proposed Virginia Firearm Legislation SB1299
Legislation Overview
Title: School resource officers; training and certification, memoranda of understanding.
Description: School resource officers; training and certification; memoranda of understanding. Requires each school resource officer to be trained and certified by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety. The bill expands the topics on which school security officers are required to be trained. The bill also requires any school board that agrees to place school resource officers in any school in the school division and the relevant local law-enforcement agency to establish and annually review and update a memorandum of understanding (MOU) governing the use and duties of school resource officers, and ensure that all relevant parties receive initial and ongoing training on the contents of such MOU.
Session: 2019 Regular Session
Last Action: Incorporated by Education and Health
Last Action Date: January 31, 2019
Sponsors
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2 sponsors: George Barker (D); Jennifer McClellan (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 5% (2 of 40)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Jan 31, 2019 | Incorporated by Education and Health |
| Senate | Jan 23, 2019 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
| Senate | Jan 7, 2019 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102735D |
| Senate | Jan 7, 2019 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Prefiled | Jan 7, 2019 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
| Description | Vote Date | Yea Votes | Nay Votes | No Votes | Absent | Passed |
| Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health | 01/31/2019 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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Link: link to state bill page
