Virginia Senate Bill 378

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

State correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving the communication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of one telephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unit at each correctional facility and that the maximum number of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than 20.

State correctional facilities; DOC to provide telephone calls and communication services.

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]

2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N 2-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-31	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-19	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2024-01-19	Senate	Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104609D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
53	1	1.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	35.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB378
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB378+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB378F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S09V0017+SB0378
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0080+SB0378