| VA | HB438 | Pass | Written complaints; felony offenses. Provides that a written complaint is required for a felony offense, regardless of whether the complainant is a law-enforcement officer. Current law only requires a written complaint for any offense if the complain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 809 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB611 | Pass | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional correctional facility to report to the State Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 813 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1246 | Pass | Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 742 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB823 | Pass | Temporary detention order; alternative transportation. Provides that when a magistrate is determining whether an alternative transportation provider is available for the purposes of designating a transportation provider for the transportation of a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 643 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1496 | Pass | Surveillance technology reporting by state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments. Requires all state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments to provide to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 614 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB942 | Engross
50% | Polling places and voter satellite offices; prohibited locations. Prohibits the placement of a polling place or a voter satellite office within a police station or sheriff's office, but permits the placement in a public building that houses multiple ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB775 | Engross
50% | License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB72 | Intro
25% | Public schools; threat assessment teams; duties; annual meeting with chief law-enforcement officer of locality or a designee from the local law-enforcement agency. Requires the threat assessment team established by the division superintendent for eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB232 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB249 | Intro
25% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement agencies; use of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall have the power and duty to establish a comprehe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB180 | Intro
25% | Radar detectors. Authorizes the use and sale of devices and mechanisms to detect a radar, laser, or other device or mechanism employed by law-enforcement personnel to measure the speed of motor vehicles on the highways of the Commonwealth for law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB293 | Intro
25% | Disposal of unclaimed property in possession of sheriff or police; notice of public display and sale. Allows a law-enforcement agency to publish the required notice that there will be a public display and sale of certain unclaimed personal property t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB546 | Intro
25% | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB635 | Intro
25% | Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records; law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB718 | Intro
25% | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1162 | Intro
25% | Security camera monitoring by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that any law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations may establish a program to allow for the monitoring or reviewing of security c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB751 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill and includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB920 | Intro
25% | License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owner or other re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Committee substitute posted to LIS only 24107451D-H1 |
| VA | HB631 | Intro
25% | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; emergency dispatchers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to emergency dispatchers who are employed by the Department of State Police and agencies whose law-enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1037 | Intro
25% | Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Authorizes the Department of State Police or the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Incorporated by Communications, Technology and Innovation |
| VA | HB423 | Intro
25% | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest or in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Public Safety |
| VA | HB137 | Intro
25% | Emergency medical services regulations; police dogs. Requires the State Board of Health to promulgate regulations, in consultation with the State Veterinarian, to provide emergency treatment to police dogs injured in the line of duty and for the tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Stricken from docket by Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB260 | Intro
25% | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that for the purposes of expungement of police and court records the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) |
