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Substantial risk orders; Substantial Risk Order Training Program established; annual report. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish the Substantial Risk Order Training Program for the purposes of training law-enforcement agencies and other public institutions throughout the Commonwealth to use and implement the substantial risk order law. The bill directs all law-enforcement officers to receive training in the use and implementation of substantial risk orders. The bill requires the programming to provide training regarding proper procedures to follow, the circumstances under which the law can be used, the benefits to public safety from proper use of the law, and the harm that may ensue from the law not being used when lawfully available. The Program also includes efforts to educate the public on and increase awareness of the substantial risk order law. The bill requires the Department to report by November 1 each year to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security regarding the use of Program funds, details of the content of programming developed, and the effectiveness of the Program in assisting law-enforcement agencies and other public institutions in the use of the substantial risk order law.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Mar 11, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 2 co
Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 35-N 0-A)
Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Read third time
Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Passed by for the day
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB896)
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Committee substitute printed 26109149D-S1
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB896)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 35-N 0-A)
Read second time
committee amendments agreed to
Engrossed by House as amended
Read first time
Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
Assigned HAPP sub: Transportation & Public Safety
House subcommittee offered
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (5-Y 2-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB896)
Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104815D
Get a plain-English explanation of what this bill does, who it affects, and why it matters.
Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 35-N 0-A)
Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.
Dan I. Helmer
Amy J. Laufer