Virginia House Bill 5066 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on August 18 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Public Safety
Pending: House Public Safety Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officer training and qualifications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to develop uniform curriculum and lesson plans for the compulsory minimum entry-level, in-service, and advanced training standards to be employed by criminal justice training academies approved by the Department when conducting training. The bill also requires the Department to include the recognition of implicit biases in interacting with persons who have a mental illness, substance use disorder, or developmental disability in its (i) training standards and model policies; (ii) compulsory training standards for basic training and recertification of law-enforcement officers; and (iii) operating procedures, guidelines, and standards for community policing in order to ensure sensitivity to

Law-enforcement officer training and qualifications; DCJS to develop curriculum & lesson plans.

Del. Marcia Price [D]

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Public Safety
2020-08-18	House	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
2020-08-18	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200663D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1705	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	112.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5066
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5066+hil