Virginia House Bill 5136 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Decertification of law-enforcement officers; Criminal Justice Services Board; statewide professional standards of conduct. Requires the Criminal Justice Services Board (the Board) to adopt statewide professional standards of conduct applicable to all law-enforcement officers. The bill requires any chief of police, sheriff, or agency administrator to notify the Board in writing within 48 hours of becoming aware that any law-enforcement officer currently employed by his agency has been found to have engaged in serious misconduct. The bill authorizes the Board to initiate decertification proceedings against any current or former law-enforcement officer who has engaged in serious misconduct as defined in such statewide professional standards of conduct. The bill provisions regarding decertification proceedings have a delayed effective date of October 1, 2021.

Law-enforcement officers; Criminal Justice Services Bd., statewide professional standard of conduct.

Del. John Avoli [R]	Del. Amanda Batten [R]	Del. Robert Bell [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]
Del. James Edmunds [R]	Del. Todd Gilbert [R]	Del. Daniel Marshall [R]	Del. Charles Poindexter [R]
Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Michael Webert [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Public Safety
2020-08-25	House	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
2020-08-25	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200507D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1707	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5136
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5136+hil