| VA | SB80 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB449 | Veto | Juvenile parole; juvenile correctional centers. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment or who has a cumulative term of active sentences that total more than 20 years, regardless of whether such sentences were imposed during...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB719 | Veto | Restorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that before placing an incarcerated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB456 | Pass | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| VA | SB720 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB41 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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) |
