Virginia Senate Bill 939 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-01-21 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Private police departments. Defines private police department as any police department that employs private police officers operated by an entity authorized by statute or an act of assembly to establish a private police department. The bill provides that the authority of a private police department is limited to real property owned, leased, or controlled by the entity and, if approved by the local chief of police or sheriff, any contiguous property. The bill also provides that private police departments and private police officers shall be subject to and comply with the relevant laws and regulations governing municipal police departments and shall meet the minimum compulsory training requirements for law-enforcement officers. The bill provides further that any private police department in existence on January 1, 2013, that was not otherwise established by statute or an act of assembly and whose status as a private police department was recognized by the Department of Criminal Justice Services at that time may continue to operate as a private police department provided it complies with the necessary requirements. The private police departments so recognized by the Department are the Aquia Harbor Police Department, the Babcock and Wilcox Police Department, the Bridgewater Airpark Police Department, the Carilion Police and Security Services Department, the Kings Dominion Park Police Department, the Kingsmill Police Department, the Lake Monticello Police Department, the Massanutten Police Department, and the Wintergreen Police Department.

Private police departments.

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

2015-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-21	Senate	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2015-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/14/15 15100184D

SB1217 (Similar To) 2015-03-16 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3701	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB939
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB939+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S03V0066+SB0939