Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction
Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Corrections, Department of; confinement of local inmates in State correctional facilities. [HB-586]
Department of Corrections; confinement of local inmates in state correctional facilities. Allows sheriffs and regional jail administrators to sign agreements with the Department of Corrections for the housing of local inmates in state prisons.
Sponsored by: Rep. Donald Merricks
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Prisoners; allows localities to charge persons for costs of transporting them to jail. [HB-487]
Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Allows localities to charge persons convicted of violations of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting them to jail or other holding facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Onzlee Ware
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; benefits for certain local employees. [HB-428]
Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees because the locality's annual retirement allowance for such employees exceeds the statutory amount to provide all of the other statutory benefits except the statutory annual retirement allowance (i) to all employees eligible for such benefits or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eileen Filler-Corn
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Inmates; Director of DOC to develop procedures to identify those eligible for medical assistance. [HB-2324]
Health care costs for inmates. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop procedures for identifying inmates who may be eligible for medical assistance, enrolling such inmates in the state medical assistance program, and ensuring that claims for eligible services are submitted to the Department of Medical Assistance Services rather than the Department of Corrections, and directs the Attorney General to include providers of inpatient medical services to inmates who are eligible for medical assistance services in audits and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Local correctional facilities; electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners. [HB-2308]
Local correctional facilities; electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners. Adds Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology and web-based communication systems used for communication between prisoners and third parties to the types of communication systems for which sheriffs and jail superintendents may charge a fee, except in cases in which the prisoner and the third party are located in the correctional facility or appurtenance thereto operated or controlled by the sheriff or jail superintendent, in which case the sheriff or jail superintendent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barry Knight
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0449) on 03/16/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Inmates; carnal knowledge, expansion to include defendants on bond, penalty is Class 1 misdemeanor. [HB-2294]
Carnal knowledge of an inmate; expansion to include defendants on bond. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender if he (i) is an owner or employee of the bail bond company that posted the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, (ii) has the authority to revoke the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, and (iii) carnally knows, without use of force, threat, or intimidation, a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender. Such offense is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Wilt
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0602) on 03/20/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Local correctional facilities; proceeds from commissary. [HB-2291]
Local correctional facilities; proceeds from commissary. Allows stores in local correctional facilities to provide services as well as articles and provides that proceeds that are generated from a source other than inmate accounts may be used for the general operation of the sheriff's office.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Stolle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0091) on 03/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Mandatory minimum sentences; terms of confinement or imprisonment to be served consecutively. [HB-2269]
Mandatory minimum sentences to be served consecutively; penalty. Provides that for certain crimes where a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment must be imposed on the guilty party, such sentence shall be served consecutively with any other sentence imposed on such party. The crimes included in the bill are §§ 16.1-253.2 (violation of protective orders), 18.2-46.3:3 (street gang activity in gang-free zones), 18.2-60.4 (violation of protective orders), 18.2-61 (rape), 18.2-67.1 (forcible sodomy), 18.2-67.2 (object sexual penetration), 18.2-154
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0761) on 04/03/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Corrections, Department of; exchange of medical and mental health records, etc. [HB-2148]
Department of Corrections; exchange of medical records. Authorizes the Department of Corrections to exchange medical and mental health information and records of any person committed to the Department with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Social Services, and any local department of social services in the Commonwealth for the purposes of reentry planning and post-incarceration placement and services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0235) on 03/12/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Parole Board; parole review and denial. [HB-2103]
Parole Board; parole review and denial. Requires the Parole Board to ensure that each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review of his suitability for release on parole, including a review of any relevant post-sentencing information. If the Board denies the inmate parole, the Board is required to provide specific reasons for such denial in writing.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0708) on 03/23/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Juvenile correctional centers; offenses committed by persons committed to DJJ, etc. [HB-2065]
Correctional centers; adult and juvenile; penalties. For selected offenses, imposes the same penalties for offenses committed by persons confined in a juvenile correctional center as currently exist for adult prisoners. Persons who deliver certain items to committed juveniles or allow their escape will face penalties comparable to the same conduct involving adult prisoners. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony, with a six-month mandatory minimum term of confinement, to assault persons directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of persons
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0707) on 03/23/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Incarcerated individuals; notification of those ineligible for public assistance. [HB-2014]
Notification of incarcerated individuals ineligible for public assistance. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide to the Department of Social Services, on at least a monthly basis, a list of persons committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections during the preceding month, to facilitate identification of prisoners who were receiving public assistance benefits prior to commitment and who may, as a result of their incarceration, be ineligible to receive benefits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0218) on 03/12/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Criminal sentencing; mandatory minimum sentences, work release programs. [HB-2008]
Criminal sentencing; mandatory minimum sentences; work release programs. Clarifies that no person while serving that portion of a sentence that is a mandatory minimum is eligible for work release, unless such person is participating in a work or education program operated by or under contract with the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Parole; earned sentence credits. [HB-1989]
Corrections; parole; earned sentence credits. Allows a maximum of 15 sentence credits to be earned for each 30 days served for nonviolent prisoners under the abolition of parole law (after January 1, 1995).
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Jails; court can adopt regional jail until it can obtain adequate facility. [HB-1962]
Court adoption of jails. Clarifies that when a county or city is without an adequate jail the court can adopt a regional jail until it can obtain an adequate jail. Currently the statute provides for the adoption of the jail of another county or city in such circumstances without specifying regional jails.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew James
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Restoration of civil rights; automatically eligible to vote upon completion of his sentence. [HB-1905]
Restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of a felon's civil right to be eligible to vote upon the completion of his sentence, including any term of probation or parole, and the payment of all restitution, fines, costs, and fees assessed as a result of the felony conviction. The bill has a contingent effective date of January 1, 2015, provided that the voters approve an amendment to Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of Virginia at the 2014 November election.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Corrections and Juvenile Justice, Departments of; powers and duties of Director, etc. [HB-1877]
Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice; powers and duties of the Director. Provides the Directors of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the power to designate certain employees with internal investigations authority within those Departments as having the same power as a sheriff or a law-enforcement officer to investigate allegations of criminal behavior affecting the operations of those Departments. The bill also requires such employees shall be subject to any minimum training standard required by
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0214) on 03/12/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Prisons; telephone systems. [HB-1854]
Prisons; telephone systems. Provides inmate phone services commissions paid to the Commonwealth shall not exceed 10 percent of the overall net revenue realized by the provider. All commissions or revenues received by the Commonwealth on prisoner telephone calls shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to a special nonreverting fund known as the Prisoner Reentry Fund to be used for independent pre-release and post-release reentry and transition service programs.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Assault and battery; adds employees of local or regional correctional facility. [HB-1850]
Assault and battery; local and regional correctional facility employees; penalty. Adds employees of local or regional correctional facilities to the enhanced penalty provision so that the assault and battery of such an officer who is engaged in the performance of his public duties is a Class 6 felony, with a six-month mandatory minimum term of confinement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0748) on 04/03/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Prisoners; collection by locality of actual cost of transporting. [HB-1786]
Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Provides that localities may charge a person convicted of a violation of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting him to jail or other holding facility but may charge no more than the actual cost of transporting such person even when more than one person is transported.
Sponsored by: Rep. Onzlee Ware
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