Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction
Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Retirement System; benefits for superintendents and sworn officers of regional jails. [HB-596]
Virginia Retirement System; superintendents and sworn officers of regional jails. Requires localities participating in the Virginia Retirement System and participating in a regional jail to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits provided to state police officers to the regional jail's superintendent and sworn officers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Hamilton House: Left In Appropriations on 02/12/2008
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Juvenile convicts; payment of restitution. [HB-587]
Restitution; juvenile. States that if the juvenile is under the age of 16, the court may not order restitution exceeding $2,500 and that in any case of juvenile restitution, the court may order the parents of the juvenile to pay.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden House: Continued To 2009 In Courts Of Justice By Voice Vote on 02/08/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment; criteria. [HB-559]
ECO, TDO, involuntary commitment; criteria. Changes the criteria for emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, involuntary commitment, and outpatient treatment, including how that criteria is applied to prisoners and juveniles, so that a person may be taken into custody, temporarily detained, involuntarily committed, or ordered to outpatient treatment if the person has a mental illness and there exists a substantial likelihood that, as a result of mental illness, the person will, in the near future (i) cause serious physical harm to
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0779) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Incarceration; waiving interest during period thereof. [HB-515]
Waiving interest during period of incarceration. Authorizes the court to waive interest on fines and costs accruing during any period that the defendant was incarcerated prior to July 1, 2008.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rosalyn Dance House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Correctional facility; verification of citizenship and alien status of person committed. [HB-459]
Verification of citizenship and alien status of a person committed to a correctional facility. Clarifies the mandate that any person in charge of a correctional facility shall inquire as to the citizenship status of a person in his facility and to inquire of the Law Enforcement Support Center of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the United States Department of Homeland Security as to the person's alien status, for purposes of reporting alien status to the Central Criminal Records Exchange.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo House: Left In Rules on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Correctional facilities, local; City of Danville & Pittsylvania County to enter into jail project. [HB-458]
Local correctional facilities. Allows Danville and Pittsylvania to enter into a regional jail project without a third participating jurisdiction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall House: Left In Appropriations on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Inmates; officer of correctional facility to inquire of alien status. [HB-444]
Alien status of jail and correctional facility inmates. Requires a jail officer to inquire of a person in his custody as to whether the person is a citizen of the United States and to communicate the results of the inquiry, including a result specifying that this information is unknown, to the Local Inmate Data System of the State Compensation Board. The State Compensation Board shall submit the data on any such person to the Central Criminal Records Exchange. The State Police shall forward this information to the Law Enforcement Support Center
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Rust House: Incorporated By Rules (hb820-albo) By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; enforcement of federal civil immigration laws. [HB-441]
Correctional facilities; enforcement of federal civil immigration laws. Requires the officer in charge of a correctional facility to ensure that at least one officer on duty at the facility is authorized to enforce federal civil immigration laws, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Such an agreement is often referred to as a "287(g)" agreement. This bill was incorporated into
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon House: Incorporated By Rules (hb820-albo) By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Incarcerated persons; court orders credit for time served in jail pending trial. [HB-38]
Credit for time served discretionary with court. Provides that when a court orders credit for time served in jail pending trial, etc., it may order that no time or a portion of the time be deducted from the sentence of a term of confinement when a person violates his terms of bail and is incarcerated in a local correctional facility for a violation of his terms of bail pending his trial or appeal.
Sponsored by: No sponsors House: Left In Appropriations on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Inmates; officer of correctional facility to inquire of alien status. [HB-368]
Alien status of jail and correctional facility inmates. Requires a jail officer to inquire of a person in his custody as to whether the person is a citizen of the United States and to communicate the results of the inquiry, including a result specifying that this information is unknown, to the Local Inmate Data System of the State Compensation Board. The State Compensation Board shall submit the data on any such person to the Central Criminal Records Exchange. The State Police shall forward this information to the Law Enforcement Support Center
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell House: Incorporated By Rules (hb820-albo) By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Juvenile correctional officer; assault or an assault and battery upon is Class 6 felony. [HB-321]
Assault or an assault and battery upon any juvenile correctional officer. Provides that an assault or an assault and battery upon any juvenile correctional officer or other person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of juveniles who are in a juvenile correctional facility, in a secure juvenile detention facility, or in a secure facility operated by or under contract with the Department of Juvenile Justice is a Class 6 felony. This bill expands the class of individuals for whom, if they are victims of an assault, there is a
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Death penalty; moratorium on executions. [HB-296]
Death penalty; moratorium on executions. Provides that the Commonwealth shall not conduct executions of prisoners sentenced to death for a period of five years. All other matters of law relating to the death penalty, such as bringing and trying capital charges, sentencing proceedings, imposition of a death sentence, appeals and habeas review are not affected by the bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Hargrove House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Juveniles; released to detention home between 11 and 13 years of age. [HB-1519]
Juveniles; ages 11 through 13; released to detention home. Provides that a juvenile between the ages of 11 and 13 who would ordinarily be punished for certain offenses in a correctional facility, may be released to a detention home or other juvenile facility if the operator of such facility notifies the court that they are capable and willing to accept juveniles between those ages.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Jail construction, local; State will reimburse up to one-half of capital costs. [HB-1392]
Jail construction reimbursement. Provides that the Commonwealth will reimburse any county or city up to one-half of the capital costs of a jail construction or renovation project that will increase the capacity by at least 150 beds. Certain shared jail arrangements will also be reimbursed up to one-half of the capital costs for increasing capacity by 150.
Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Sherwood House: Continued To 2009 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/08/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Probation; waiver of fourth amendment rights as condition. [HB-1366]
Probation; waiver of Fourth Amendment rights as condition of probation. Provides that among the conditions the court may impose upon a probationer is that the person, vehicle or home of the defendant shall be subject to search without a warrant during the period of his probation when the search derives from a violation of other conditions imposed upon the defendant by the court or arises out of a suspicion that the defendant is engaged in conduct the same as that or substantially similar to that for which he was convicted, provided that such condition
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Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline House: Pending Question Ordered on 02/08/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Child support; exemption for parents who are imprisoned for life. [HB-1325]
Child support; exemption; parents who are imprisoned for life. Clarifies that only parents who are imprisoned for life with no chance of parole are exempted from paying the presumptive minimum child support obligation of $65 per month. Currently, all parents who are imprisoned with no chance of parole are exempted.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Toscano House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Prisoners; health care costs. [HB-1273]
Prisoners; health care costs. Provides that payment by local correctional facilities for costs incurred for the provision of health care services for prisoners shall be limited to the lesser of the actual amount billed by the health care provider or the Medicaid rate.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lionell Spruill House: Stricken At Request Of Patron In Militia, Police And Public Safety (21-y 1-n) on 01/25/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Inmates; emergency psychiatric treatment. [HB-1237]
Mentally ill defendants; treatment and hospitalization. Establishes a new standard for hospitalizing mentally ill criminal defendants. Hospitalization may occur when the defendant has a mental illness and there exists a substantial likelihood that, as a result of that mental illness, the defendant will, in the near future, cause serious physical harm to himself or others as evidenced by recent behavior causing, attempting, or threatening harm. Under current law the standard is "imminently dangerous to himself or others." The provision applies to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dwight Jones House: Incorporated By Courts Of Justice (hb559-bell) By Voice Vote on 01/25/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Regional jail vehicles; equipped with colored warning lights. [HB-1226]
Colored warning lights on vehicles. Allows regional jail vehicles to be equipped with flashing blue, red and blue, blue and white, or red, white and blue warning lights.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bowling House: Left In Transportation on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Serious juvenile offenders; those convicted as an adult to gain earned sentence credits. [HB-1207]
Serious juvenile offenders. Allows a juvenile convicted as an adult and sentenced to an active term of incarceration with the Department of Juvenile Justice and followed by an active term of incarceration with the Department of Corrections to gain earned sentence credits while serving the juvenile portion of the sentence in a juvenile correctional center.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Melvin Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0517) on 03/17/2008