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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session
SB755School safety; employment of school security officers, criteria.
Direction
FirearmscarryAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Removes the prior 10-year limit on when a former law-enforcement officer must have been active before being hired as a school security officer (now allowing hires up to age 75), so more former officers can carry firearms on school grounds.
(i) [deleted: within 10 years immediately prior to being] he is age 75 or younger at the time he is hired by the local school board or private or religious school;
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-01-23: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends criteria for school security officers to carry firearms by deleting the 10-year recency requirement for prior law-enforcement experience (replacing it with an age-75 cap) and adding a new local chief verification step; these changes have opposing effects on the ability to carry firearms in schools, producing a mixed classification with no other covered topics.
Related bills
HB1035Public schools; school security and discipline, employment of school security officers, training.↑Expands gun access=No change to gun access Committee
HB229Weapons; possession prohibited in hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
HB101Concealed handguns; alternate methods of submission of applications for permits.↑Expands gun access Law
HB1524Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, exceptions, penalty.↓Restricts gun access=No change to gun access Law
Hearings and calendar
2025-01-16 00:00 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health-Public Education Hearing Senate Room C, Room 311, General Assembly Building
2025-01-20 00:00 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health-Public Education Hearing Senate Room C, Room 311, General Assembly Building
2025-01-23 08:00 · Hearing · House Public Safety - Public Safety Committee Hearing House North Subcommittee Room - 200
2025-01-23 08:30 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-01-24 07:30 · Hearing · House Public Safety Committee Hearing House Committee Room A - 008
2025-01-30 16:00 · Hearing · House Public Safety - Firearms Committee Hearing House North Subcommittee Room - 200
Votes
Date
Chamber
Motion
Yea-Nay
2025-01-23
S
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)