VA SB108 | 2020 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-24 - Passed by indefinitely in Rules (9-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on December 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-24 - Passed by indefinitely in Rules (9-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Virginia State Justice Commission; purpose; membership. Renames the Virginia State Crime Commission as the Virginia State Justice Commission. The bill also expands the purpose of the Commission to include studying, reporting, and making recommendations in the areas of diversion, rehabilitation, reentry, collateral consequences of conviction, and equity and fairness in the criminal legal system. The bill reduces from six to three the number of House of Delegates members and adds to the Commission the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee, the Superintendent of State Police or his designee, and one nonlegislative citizen member to be appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security with an expertise in offender rehabilitation, reform, and reentry.
Title
Virginia State Justice Commission; purpose, membership.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2020-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules (9-Y 5-N) (Y: 9 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2020-01-24 | Senate | Passed by indefinitely in Rules (9-Y 5-N) |
2019-12-11 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Rules |
2019-12-11 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100894D |