Subject Prisons and Other Methods of Correction | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1850 | Assault and battery; local and regional correctional facility employees; penalty. Adds employees of local or regional correctional facilities to the enhanced penalty provision so that the assault and battery of such an officer who is engaged in the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| VA | SB1033 | Correctional centers; adult and juvenile; penalties. For selected offenses, imposes the same penalties for offenses committed by persons confined in a juvenile correctional center as currently exist for adult prisoners. Persons who deliver certain i... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| VA | HB2269 | Mandatory minimum sentences to be served consecutively; penalty. Provides that for certain crimes where a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment must be imposed on the guilty party, such sentence shall be served consecutively with any other sente... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| VA | SB832 | Mandatory minimum sentences to be served consecutively; penalty. Provides that for certain crimes where a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment must be imposed on the guilty party, such sentence shall be served consecutively with any other sente... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| VA | HB2103 | Parole Board; parole review and denial. Requires the Parole Board to ensure that each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review of his suitability for release on parole, including a review of any relevant post-sentencing inform... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | HB2065 | Correctional centers; adult and juvenile; penalties. For selected offenses, imposes the same penalties for offenses committed by persons confined in a juvenile correctional center as currently exist for adult prisoners. Persons who deliver certain it... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| VA | SB1234 | Placement in secure local facility. Clarifies that a juvenile 14 years of age or older who is eligible for commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice may be confined in a detention home or other secure local facility for more than 30 days prov... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| VA | HB2294 | Carnal knowledge of an inmate; expansion to include defendants on bond. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender if he (i) is an owner or employee of the bail bond company that posted the pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| VA | HB1339 | Local election districts and redistricting. Permits any county, city, or town governing body to exclude from the census population used in decennial redistricting the adult inmate populations of federal, state, or regional adult correctional faciliti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| VA | SB729 | Temporary jail facilities; Chesapeake. Allows the City of Chesapeake to receive a waiver from the construction requirements of the "Standards for Planning, Design, Construction and Reimbursement of Local Correctional Facilities" for a jail enlargemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| VA | HB1635 | Temporary jail facilities; Chesapeake. Allows the City of Chesapeake to receive a waiver from the construction requirements of the "Standards for Planning, Design, Construction and Reimbursement of Local Correctional Facilities" for a jail enlargemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| VA | HB2308 | Local correctional facilities; electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners. Adds Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology and web-based communication systems used for communication between prisoners and third parties to the types of communicati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| VA | SB703 | Concealed handgun permit fees; correctional officers; exemption. Provides an exemption for any retired correctional officer with at least 15 years of service from any fee charged for the issuance of a concealed handgun permit. The bill contains techn... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| VA | SB818 | Compact; control of prisoners outside of Virginia. Establishes a compact with other states for control of prisoners receiving medical and other care outside of Virginia. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| VA | SB943 | Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice; powers and duties of the Director. Provides the Directors of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the power to designate certain employees with internal investigati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| VA | HB1772 | Department of Corrections; electronic notice. Provides that the Department of Corrections may use electronic means to provide notice to the appropriate parties prior to the release of a prisoner. Under current law, the Department may only provide suc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| VA | HB1877 | Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice; powers and duties of the Director. Provides the Directors of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the power to designate certain employees with internal investigati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214) |
| VA | HB2014 | Notification of incarcerated individuals ineligible for public assistance. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide to the Department of Social Services, on at least a monthly basis, a list of persons committed to the custody of the Departme... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218) |
| VA | HB2148 | Department of Corrections; exchange of medical records. Authorizes the Department of Corrections to exchange medical and mental health information and records of any person committed to the Department with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235) |
| VA | SB1208 | Department of Corrections; electronic notice. Provides that the Department of Corrections may use electronic means to provide notice to the appropriate parties prior to the release of a prisoner. Under current law, the Department may only provide suc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162) |
| VA | SB1217 | Department of Corrections; exchange of medical records. Authorizes the Department of Corrections to exchange medical and mental health information and records of any person committed to the Department with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164) |
| VA | HB1763 | Jail officer may execute a warrant in his jail. Authorizes a jail officer employed at a regional jail or jail farm to execute upon a person being held in his jail a warrant, capias, or summons issued anywhere in the Commonwealth. Currently only a per... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) |
| VA | HB2291 | Local correctional facilities; proceeds from commissary. Allows stores in local correctional facilities to provide services as well as articles and provides that proceeds that are generated from a source other than inmate accounts may be used for the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091) |
| VA | HB1653 | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified the registration information on the Sex Offender and Crimes Aga... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB1266 | Nonconsecutive jail time. Authorizes a court to sentence defendants convicted of a criminal offense, not just those convicted of a misdemeanor, who are sentenced to confinement in jail, to weekend days or nonconsecutive days to permit the defendant t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | HB2008 | Criminal sentencing; mandatory minimum sentences; work release programs. Clarifies that no person while serving that portion of a sentence that is a mandatory minimum is eligible for work release, unless such person is participating in a work or educ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1424 | Court adoption of jails. Clarifies that when a county or city is without an adequate jail the court can adopt a regional jail until it can obtain an adequate jail. Currently the statute provides for the adoption of the jail of another county or city ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | HB1962 | Court adoption of jails. Clarifies that when a county or city is without an adequate jail the court can adopt a regional jail until it can obtain an adequate jail. Currently the statute provides for the adoption of the jail of another county or city ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | HB1989 | Corrections; parole; earned sentence credits. Allows a maximum of 15 sentence credits to be earned for each 30 days served for nonviolent prisoners under the abolition of parole law (after January 1, 1995). [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | HB2324 | Health care costs for inmates. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop procedures for identifying inmates who may be eligible for medical assistance, enrolling such inmates in the state medical assistance program, and ensuri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | HB1407 | Inmates; eligibility for medical assistance. Provides that a person who is in the custody of a state or local correctional facility and who meets the criteria for eligibility for services under the state plan for medical assistance shall remain eligi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1414 | Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration. Changes the date on which the Department of Corrections shall begin compensating local jails for the cost of incarcerating state prisoners from the sixty-first to the thirty-first day following the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1905 | Restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of a felon's civil right to be eligible to vote upon the completion of his sentence, including any term of probation or parole, and the payment of all restitution, fines, costs, and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1786 | Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Provides that localities may charge a person convicted of a violation of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting him to jail or other holding facility but may charge no more than ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR721 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of voting rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of senten... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR683 | Study; Workers' Compensation Commission to study expanding occupational disease presumptions to include correctional officers; report. Requests the Workers' Compensation Commission to study the impact of providing correctional officers the benefits o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1660 | Possession or transportation of weapons; prisoners in correctional facilities; penalty. Prohibits prisoners in state, local, or community correctional facilities from possessing or transporting weapons. A violation of this prohibition constitutes a C... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-01 Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB704 | Workers' compensation; disease presumption; corrections officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupational... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB774 | Workers' compensation; disease presumption; correctional officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupationa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SJR321 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of voting rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of senten... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| VA | SB728 | Court adoption of jails. Clarifies that when a county or city is without an adequate jail the court can adopt a regional jail until it can obtain an adequate jail. Currently the statute provides for the adoption of the jail of another county or city ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-18 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services by voice vote |
| VA | HB1459 | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; definition of "law-enforcement officer." Adds certain employees of the Department of Corrections to the definition of "law-enforcement officer" for purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-18 Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| VA | HB1854 | Prisons; telephone systems. Provides inmate phone services commissions paid to the Commonwealth shall not exceed 10 percent of the overall net revenue realized by the provider. All commissions or revenues received by the Commonwealth on prisoner tele... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-18 Passed by indefinitely in Militia, Police and Public Safety (15-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HJR124 | Governor; Virginia's Public Safety Memorial. Requests the Governor to include in the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial the names of state and local probation and parole officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB175 | Postrelease supervision of felons. Amends provisions regarding the imposition of an additional term of incarceration and postrelease supervision for certain felons who are sentenced to an active prison term. The bill clarifies that an additional ter... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB247 | Opportunities for work and career and technical education; child support. Requires the Department to withhold child support payments out of moneys paid to prisoners who maintain a job within the Department. Child support payments owed will also be wi... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB547 | Assault and battery a felony when certain classes of people are victimized; penalty. Expands the class of people for whom, when they are victims of an assault or assault and battery, the offense is punished as a Class 6 felony. The expanded class wou... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB586 | Crimes by prisoners; penalties. Provides that a prisoner may be charged under the Code sections that apply to crimes by prisoners, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and possession of a firearm by a felon. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SJR90 | Study; JLARC to study excess capacity at secure juvenile facilities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission to study excess capacity at secure juvenile facilities. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB162 | Telephone services for incarcerated persons. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to exercise jurisdiction over rates and charges of telecommunication services that enable correctional inmates to originate calls at pay telephones or other tele... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
