| VA | HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Expands the list of offenses that prohibit a person from petitioning the Parole Board for conditional release as a geriatric prisoner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Capital murder; death penalty. Authorizes punishment by death for capital murder. The bill also provides that the Supreme Court of Virginia shall give priority to the review of cases in which the sentence of death has been imposed over other cases pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; felony drug offenses. Removes any person convicted of a second or subsequent felony drug offense from being eligible to earn enhanced earned sentence credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole, the Board must notify the attorney for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; criminal penalties. Modifies several criminal penalties related to marijuana, imposes limits on dissemination of criminal history record information related to certain marijuana offenses, and provides a petition process for any person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1179 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction while a prisoner. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and restricts any pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB726 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Provides that it is unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility or juvenile correctional facility who is permitted to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanctuary policies prohibited. Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy intended to restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws. The bill also requires an official in charge of a correctional facility to tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB685 | Intro
Prefile | Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections may establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Public Safety |
| VA | HB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1121 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB988 | Intro
Prefile | Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration. Requires the Department of Corrections to compensate local jails for the actual cost, based on the rate calculated in the Compensation Board's annual Jail Cost Report, of incarcerating felons who s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB378 | Intro
Prefile | 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 ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole, the Board must notify the attorney for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
