Virginia Senate Bill 1708 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-01-28 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 6-N 2-A)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions; finality and enforcement. Makes final and binding the decision of the hearing panel conducting a hearing to review an action that dismisses, demotes, suspends, or transfers a law-enforcement officer for punitive reasons, if such decisions are consistent with law and written policy. Under current law, the hearing panel only provides advisory recommendations. The bill allows either party to the hearing to petition the circuit court of the locality in which the grievant is employed for an order requiring the implementation of the final decision of the hearing panel.

Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2019-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 6-N 2-A) (Y: 6 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-28	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 6-N 2-A)
2019-01-15	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-15	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 19104419D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	1	504	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1708
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1708+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0175+SB1708