Virginia Senate Bill 659 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions. Provides that for the purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act a majority decision of a hearing panel shall be binding on the employing agency. Under current law, such decisions are advisory recommendations only. The bill also provides that a hearing panel's decision may be appealed to the circuit court in the jurisdiction where the grievance arose. Lastly, the bill provides that the third member of the hearing panel shall not be from within the employing law-enforcement agency.

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

Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]

2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N) (Y: 5 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N)
2024-01-15	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-15	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 24104170D

HB1341 (Similar To) 2024-02-13 - Left in Public Safety

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?241+sum+SB659
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB659+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S13V0094+SB0659