| VA | HB4 | Enroll
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022 |
| VA | HB719 | Pass | Physical evidence recovery kits; victim's right to notification; storage. Provides that for a physical evidence recovery kit that (i) was collected by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as part of a routine death investigation and the medical e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| VA | HB750 | Pass | Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers, (ii) any sheriff, (iii) any police force, or (iv) the Department of St... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| VA | HB1282 | Pass | Sharing of forfeited assets; promoting law enforcement. Specifies that the forfeited property and assets paid to the state treasury into a special fund of the Department of Criminal Justice Services that shall be made available to federal, state, and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB283 | Pass | Human trafficking training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards for law-enforcement personnel regarding the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-01 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| VA | HB1339 | Engross
Sine Die | Facial recognition technology; local law enforcement; campus police. Facial recognition technology; local law enforcement; campus police. Redefines facial recognition technology, for the purposes of providing criteria for the lawful use of facial rec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12 Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| VA | HB1339 | Engross
Sine Die | Facial recognition technology; local law enforcement; campus police. Redefines facial recognition technology, for the purposes of providing criteria for the lawful use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, as conducting an algorithmic ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12 Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| VA | HB123 | Engross
Sine Die | Destroying or tampering with firefighting or emergency medical services equipment or law-enforcement vehicles and equipment; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for injuring, destroying, removing, or tamperin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-28 Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB325 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting lost or stolen firearms; civil penalty. Repeals the requirement that, if a firearm is lost or stolen from a person who lawfully possessed it, such person shall report the loss or theft of the firearm to any local law-enforcement agency or t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-28 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HB790 | Engross
Sine Die | Collective bargaining; law enforcement; transparency and accountability. Prohibits a county, city, or town from entering into a collective bargaining contract with a labor union or other employee association representing law-enforcement officers or e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-28 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the authority of a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body. Under current law, law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish standards for law-enforcement personnel regarding trauma-informed training for the recognition, prevention, and reporting of h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB985 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports; violent offenses. School principals; incident reports; violent offenses. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement any felony offenses and violent offenses enumerated in the bill that may constitut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; required release of law-enforcement disciplinary records; exceptions. Requires the release of law-enforcement disciplinary records related to completed disciplinary investigations. The bill defines "law-enforcemen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB801 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2022-02-15 To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments. Authorizes localities to, by ordinance, authorize their local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices in certain locations named in the ordinance... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition on use of show-up identification by law-enforcement officers. Prohibits the use of a show-up identification by any law-enforcement officer. The bill defines a "show-up identification" as an identification procedure in which an eyewitness ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; repeal; release of certain law-enforcement criminal incident information and criminal investigative files. Repeals the provisions in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (i) regarding the release of criminal in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10 Incorporated by General Laws |
| VA | HB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Local law enforcement; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents; form and scope. Requires local law-enforcement authorities to report in writing, and the principal or his designee and the division superintendent to receive ea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02 Stricken from docket by Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; closed meetings; privacy of witnesses in law-enforcement administrative investigations. Provides that a public body may hold a closed meeting to protect the privacy of an individual in administrative or disciplina... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27 Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |