Virginia Senate Bill 838 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 15 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-01 - Continued to 2019 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N)
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Virginia Conservation Police Review Board. Creates a six-member review board composed of a State Police officer and a criminal defense lawyer, both appointed by the Governor; a recreational angler and a hunter, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Rules Committee, respectively; the chairman of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries; and the Attorney General or his designee, who shall be a nonvoting member. The review board is tasked with reviewing (i) citizen complaints of misconduct by conservation police officers, (ii) the performance of conservation police officers in carrying out the policy of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (the Department), and (iii) the level of coordination and the relationships between conservation police officers and other law-enforcement agencies. The bill authorizes the review board to have access to all Department law-enforcement records, facilities, and landholdings and requires the review board to report its findings to the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries. The bill also authorizes the review board to refer serious cases of officer misconduct to the Secretary of Natural Resources with a recommendation for disciplinary action or termination of employment.

Virginia Conservation Police Review Board; created.

Sen. Lionell Spruill [D]

Sen. Mark Peake [R]

2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-01	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N)
2018-01-15	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2018-01-15	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 18104931D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
29	1	219	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB838
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB838+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S01V0050+SB0838