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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities, local and regional; fees charged to inmates. [SB-581]
Local correctional facilities; fees. Directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to convene a work group to review and make recommendations regarding the reduction or elimination of costs and fees charged to inmates in local or regional correctional facilities, including fees related to the costs of an inmate's keep, work release, or participation in educational or rehabilitative programs; telephone services; commissaries; and electronic visitation systems. The bill requires the Board to report its findings and recommendations
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Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Morrissey
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0359) on 04/11/2022
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Correctional facilities, state; fees associated with inmates. [SB-441]
State correctional facilities; fees; report. Directs the Department of Corrections (the Department) to convene a work group to review and make recommendations regarding the reduction or elimination of costs and fees charged to inmates in state correctional facilities. The bill directs the Department to report its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by October 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0682) on 04/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities, local; fees associated with inmates. [HB-1053]
Local correctional facilities; fees. Directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to convene a work group to study implementation of the reduction or elimination of certain fees associated with inmates in local correctional facilities. The bill provides that the work group shall consist of two members of the House Committee on Public Safety who are not members of the same political party and two members of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services who are not members of the same political party. Such legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; prohibited acts, use of canines by officers. [HB-908]
Use of canines in correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer, jail officer, or other employee of a state, local, or juvenile correctional facility to use a canine, except where there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to any prisoner or detained juvenile or any officer or employee of the facility, to extract a prisoner or detained juvenile from his cell or to intervene in an altercation, fight, or other incident between prisoners or detained juveniles. The bill requires that all
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Medical assistance services; eligibility, individuals confined in state correctional facilities. [HB-800]
Medical assistance services; individuals confined in state correctional facilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to coordinate with the Department of Corrections to identify persons in the custody of state correctional facilities who are currently enrolled in the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance or who may be eligible for services under the state plan for medical assistance upon release and, prior to the release of such persons, (i) review the eligibility of currently enrolled persons to ensure continued access
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0300) on 04/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
State correctional facilities; communication systems, free telephone calls & communication services. [HB-621]
Communication systems within state correctional facilities; free 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 initiating or receiving the communication.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Civilian deaths in custody; report. [HB-801]
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 process of being arrested, en route to be incarcerated, incarcerated, or otherwise in the custody of such law-enforcement agency or correctional facility. The bill provides that any law-enforcement agency or correctional facility that fails to comply may, at the discretion of the Department, be declared
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; fees. [HB-673]
Local correctional facilities; fees. Eliminates certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, including a fee to defray the costs associated with an inmate's keep, travel and other expenses associated with an inmate's work release employment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program, and telephone systems. The bill also reduces certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, providing that the cost of items within a correctional facility's store or commissary shall not exceed 10 percent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Stricken From Docket By Public Safety (19-y 2-n) on 02/04/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities, local, regional, and community; attorney visitation of clients. [HB-543]
State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties; attorney visitation of clients. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to develop and establish minimum standards for ensuring that attorneys have sufficient opportunities to have confidential visits with their clients who are held in local, regional, and community correctional facilities, which, considering facility schedules, space, personnel constraints, and inmate disciplinary status, shall include some opportunity for visitation of clients on the weekends and after 5:00
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Sponsored by: Rep. Don Scott
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities, state; fees associated with inmates. [HB-665]
State correctional facilities; fees; report. Directs the Department of Corrections (the Department) to convene a work group to review and make recommendations regarding the reduction or elimination of costs and fees charged to inmates in state correctional facilities. The bill directs the Department to report its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by October 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0681) on 04/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Telephone systems within correctional facilities; fees and records of communications. [HB-674]
Telephone systems within correctional facilities. Provides that no records of communications made by inmates from telephone systems within correctional facilities shall be disclosed without a search warrant, except upon the request of an inmate for the inmate's own records to be disclosed to him or his attorney. The bill requires that each correctional facility create and maintain an audit log for each inmate that shall (i) identify each disclosed record and (ii) include a copy of the search warrant issued to obtain such record. The bill provides
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; prohibited acts, use of canines by officers, etc. [HB-683]
Use of canines in correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Prohibits any correctional officer, jail officer, or other employee of a state, local, or juvenile correctional facility from using a canine to extract a prisoner or juvenile from his cell unless there is a threat of death or serious bodily injury to the prisoner or juvenile, other prisoners or juveniles, or any officer or employee of the facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Continued To 2023 In Public Safety By Voice Vote on 02/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Local correctional facilities and lock-ups; minimum standards. [HB-147]
Minimum standards for local correctional facilities and Minimum standards for local correctional facilities and lock-ups; individuals in need of behavioral health or developmental services. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to establish minimum standards for identification and care of individuals with developmental disabilities in local correctional facilities and procedures for enforcing such minimum standards, including requirements for (i) screening of individuals committed to local correctional facilities for developmental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; work release programs. [HB-170]
Correctional facilities; work release programs. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to convene a work group to study inmate work release programs. The bill provides that the work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Chairmen of the House Committee for Courts of Justice, House Committee on Public Safety, Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Senate Committee on the Judiciary by December 1, 2022. Correctional facilities; work
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0153) on 04/07/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; DOC to convene work group to study use of restorative housing. [SB-108]
Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing; report. Directs the Department of Corrections to convene a work group to study the use of restorative housing within state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers. The bill directs the Department to facilitate confidential interviews between work group members and at least 25 persons currently incarcerated in a state correctional facility who are currently or who have within the past 12 months been placed in restorative housing, provided that such persons are not the subject
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Enacted, Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/22) on 04/27/2022
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty. [SB-1461]
Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty. Provides that any person who receives any pecuniary benefit or other consideration to act in the unlawful delivery of items or contraband to prisoners is guilty of bribery, punishable as a Class 4 felony. The bill also provides that any law-enforcement officer, jail officer, or correctional officer who violates the provisions of the bill shall be decertified and shall be forever ineligible for reemployment as a law-enforcement officer, jail officer, or correctional officer in the Commonwealth. Bribery
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0289) on 03/18/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Behavioral health; assessments in local correctional facilities, report. [HB-1874]
Behavioral health services in local correctional facilities. Requires the Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to include in its minimum standards for behavioral health services in local correction facilities requirements for (i) referral of individuals committed to local correctional facilities for whom a behavioral health screening indicates reason to believe the person may have mental illness to a behavioral health service provider for a behavioral health assessment and (ii) in cases in which there is reason to believe an individual
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Levine
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0179) on 03/18/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. [SB-1301]
Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, subject to certain exceptions. Isolated confinement is defined in the bill as confinement of a prisoner or juvenile to a cell, alone or with another prisoner or juvenile, for 20 hours or more per day for an adult or for 17 hours or more per day for a juvenile, other than for the purpose of providing medical or mental health treatment. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In Appropriations on 03/01/2021
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Prisoners; mental health screening at local correctional facilities. [SB-1442]
Mental health screening of inmates at local correctional facilities. Requires that the staff of a local correctional facility screen persons admitted to the facility for mental illness using a scientifically validated instrument designated by the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The bill provides that if the screening indicates that a person may have a mental illness, an assessment of his need for mental services shall be conducted within 72 hours of the time of the screening by a qualified mental health professional,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Appropriations on 02/21/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Prisoners; mental health screening upon admission to a local correctional facility. [HB-1783]
Mental health screening of prisoners in local correctional facilities. Requires that the staff of a local, regional, or community correctional facility screen persons admitted to the facility for mental illness using a scientifically validated instrument identified by the Department of Criminal Justice Services in consultation with the State Board of Corrections and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The bill also requires that these entities develop and deliver a training program for employees of such facilities in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Left In Appropriations on 02/08/2017