Virginia House Bill 1501 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 25 2023 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-20 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements. Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements. Requires every member appointed to a locality's law-enforcement civilian oversight body to observe within 90 days of the member's appointment a law-enforcement officer employed with such locality's law-enforcement agency while such law-enforcement officer is engaged in his official duties and that such observation total no fewer than 24 hours, a portion of which includes a ride-along with a law-enforcement officer. The bill also provides that any disciplinary determination recommended by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body shall be advisory and that if any law-enforcement agency declines to implement such recommendation, such agency shall create and make available to the public within 30 days from the date such recommendation is reported to such agency a written public record of its rationale for declining to implement such recommendation. Finally, the bill requires each law-enforcement civilian oversight body to include at least one retired law-enforcement officer as a voting member; under current law, a retired law-enforcement officer may serve on such body as an advisory, nonvoting ex officio member.

Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements of members.

Del. Chris Runion [R]

Del. Joseph McNamara [R]

Del. Wren Williams [R]

Del. Tony Wilt [R]

2023-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-26 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N) (Y: 51 N: 47 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-01-20 - House - House: Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (12-Y 10-N) (Y: 12 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-20	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
2023-01-27	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-27	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-01-26	House	VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N)
2023-01-26	House	Read third time and passed House (51-Y 47-N)
2023-01-25	House	Printed as engrossed 23100457D-E
2023-01-25	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB1501E
2023-01-25	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2023-01-25	House	Read second time
2023-01-24	House	Read first time
2023-01-20	House	Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (12-Y 10-N)
2023-01-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
2023-01-17	House	Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2
2023-01-03	House	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
2023-01-03	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100457D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	1	601	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1501
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1501+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1501E+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23104871A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+HB1501AH
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1501F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1501FE122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H1502V0005+HB1501
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H15V0007+HB1501
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1106+HB1501
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0290+HB1501