Bill Text: VA HB1935 | 2019 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Inmate workforces; eligibility for voluntary participation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0199) [HB1935 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-HB1935-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §53.1-128 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§53.1-128. Workforces and authorized work places.
The local governing body of any county, city or town may
establish workforces in the county, city or town under such conditions as it
may prescribe. Such workforces are authorized to work on (i) public property or
works owned, leased or operated by the Commonwealth or the county, city or
town; (ii) a privately operated national park on federal land; (iii) any
property owned by a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under
26 U.S.C. §501(c)(3) or (c)(4) and that is organized and operated exclusively
for charitable or social welfare purposes whether the same is located within
such county, city or town, or elsewhere; or (iv) private property (a) owned or
occupied by an elderly or indigent person or persons where such property has
been identified by a citizens housing advisory committee as needing
rehabilitation or repair and the property owner has consented to such work or
(b) classified as or used as a cemetery where such property has been abandoned
and where on such property exist nuisances that have been identified by a
municipal corporation for abatement or removal pursuant to §15.2-1115 or a
similar local ordinance. Every person 18 years of age or older who is convicted
and confined for any violation of a local ordinance and who is confined as a
punishment or for failure to pay a required fine, shall be liable to work in
such workforce. Every person 18 years of age or older who is confined pending
disposition of a nonviolent criminal offense or an offense under Chapter
5 (§20-61 et seq.) of Title 20 or a criminal offense not listed in §
19.2-297.1 may work in such workforce on a voluntary basis with the
approval of and under the supervision of the sheriff or his designee.