Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Death sentences; removes electrocution as manner of execution for prisoners, lethal injection. [HB-942]
Death sentences; electrocution. Removes electrocution as a manner of execution for prisoners sentenced to death. Currently, a condemned prisoner may choose either lethal injection or electrocution as the manner of execution.
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Inmates; eligibility for health care. [HB-913]
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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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Geriatric prisoners; conditional release, after offense, etc., person subject to protective order. [HB-868]
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners; persons subject to protective orders ineligible. Provides that a prisoner is ineligible for conditional release due to age if he was convicted of a felony act of violence and was subject to a protective order at the time of the offense or after the offense but prior to being released from incarceration for the offense and the victim of the felony offense was the protected person under the protective order.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Prisoners; notification of tertiary care. [HB-867]
Board of Corrections; notification of tertiary care of prisoner. Requires the Board of Corrections to promulgate regulations for state and local correctional facilities requiring that notification be made to a prisoner's family or stated emergency contact person anytime a prisoner is moved within or without his assigned facility for the purposes of tertiary care.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission from local correctional facility; criteria. [HB-86]
Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission from local correctional facility; criteria. Repeals the second enactment of the 2012 act that amended the criteria for the psychiatric admission of inmates from local correctional facilities to add mentally ill inmates for whom there exists a substantial likelihood that they will suffer serious harm due to their lack of capacity to protect themselves from harm. The second enactment provides that the use of this additional criterion shall expire on July 1, 2014.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Workers' compensation; correctional officers, presumption of compensability for certain diseases. [HB-821]
Workers' compensation; disease presumption; correctional officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Sentence credits; drug-related felonies. [HB-723]
Sentence credits; drug-related felonies. Allows a maximum of seven and one-half sentence credits to be earned for each 30 days served on sentence for drug-related felonies. All other felony sentences will continue to earn sentence credits at a maximum of four and one-half days for each 30 days served. The bill also allows all felons to earn an additional two and one-half sentence credits for each 30 days served for participating in programs intended to assist in rehabilitation that are taken in addition to the mandatory programs in which they are
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Restoration of civil right to vote; person convicted of nonviolent felony, eligibility to register. [HB-7]
Restoration of civil right to vote. Provides for the automatic restoration of the civil right to be eligible to register to vote to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of 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.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Riverside Regional Jail Authority; sheriffs allowed to appoint their alternates to vote at meetings. [HB-699]
Riverside Regional Jail Authority. Allows sheriff members of the Riverside Regional Jail Authority to appoint alternates to vote when sheriff members are not present at a meeting.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Restoration of civil right to vote; felon eligible to vote upon completion of sentence. [HB-556]
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, 2017, provided that the voters approve an amendment to Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of Virginia at the 2015 November election.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Prisons; telephone systems, Prisoner Reentry Fund established. [HB-414]
Prisons; telephone systems; Prisoner Reentry Fund established. Provides that 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 the Prisoner Reentry Fund to be used for independent pre-release and post-release reentry and transition services programs.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Temporary detention order; facility of detention. [HB-243]
Temporary detention order; facility of detention. Provides that in cases in which a facility for temporary detention has not been identified prior to the running of the time for emergency custody, the magistrate shall issue the temporary detention order if the person meets the criteria for temporary detention and the community services board certifies that it will continue to make good faith efforts to identify the facility of temporary detention until such time as a facility is identified or the temporary detention order expires for lack of execution.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Jail authorities; sovereign immunity. [HB-150]
Jail authorities; sovereign immunity. Provides that regional jail authorities enjoy sovereign immunity in the performance of government functions.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Riverside Regional Jail Authority; sheriffs allowed to appoint their alternates to vote at meetings. [HB-120]
Riverside Regional Jail Authority. Allows sheriff members of the Riverside Regional Jail Authority to appoint alternates to vote when sheriff members are not present at a meeting.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Corrections & Juvenile Justice, Department of; grievance procedures for certain employees. [HB-1069]
Department of Human Resource Management; grievance procedures for certain employees of the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that employees of the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice may appeal their terminations for abuse only through the Department of Human Resource Management applicable grievance procedures, which shall not include successive grievance steps or the formal hearing provided in § 2.2-3005.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Hearing-impaired prisoners; Director of DOC to make available interpreters within facilities. [HB-1064]
Department of Corrections; hearing-impaired prisoners. Requires the Director to make available qualified interpreters for hearing-impaired prisoners within state, local and regional correctional facilities.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Method of execution; Director of DOC certifies that lethal injection isn't available, electrocution. [HB-1052]
Method of execution. Provides that if the Director of the Department of Corrections certifies that lethal injection is not available as a method of execution, electrocution shall be used instead.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Juvenile facilities, secure; JLARC to study excess capacity. [SJR-90]
Study; JLARC to study excess capacity at secure juvenile facilities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission to study excess capacity at secure juvenile facilities.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; restoration of voting rights. [SJR-321]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of voting rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of sentence, including any term of probation or parole. The bill further provides that persons convicted of violent felonies, felony drug crimes, or election fraud crimes may have their voting rights restored by the Governor upon completion of sentence, including any term of probation or parole, and authorizes
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Corrections and Juvenile Justice, Departments of; powers and duties of Director, etc. [SB-943]
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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