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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Prisoners; Department of Corrections- and jailer-issued identification. [HB-1405]
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card through the Department of Motor Vehicles and that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall expedite the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for such government-issued identification card and the issuance of such identification. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections, in coordination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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State correctional facilities; DOC to provide telephone calls and communication services. [SB-378]
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 initiating or receiving the communication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of one telephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unit at each correctional facility and that the maximum number of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than 20.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. [HB-988]
Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health services to persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The bill also requires local correctional facilities to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Online educational courses; DOC to establish, etc., an educational program for prisoners. [HB-1121]
Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means for prisoners to earn degrees and postsecondary education credentials through accessing online degree and credential programs that are offered by George Mason University, Old Dominion University, James Madison University, and comprehensive community colleges.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Public Safety on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Craigsville, Town of; conveyance of certain property from Department of Corrections to the Town. [SB-691]
Conveyance of certain property from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville; Augusta Correctional Center. Provides for the transfer of certain property in Augusta County from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville. Conveyance of certain property from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville; Augusta Correctional Center. Provides for the transfer of certain property in Augusta County from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0127) on 03/20/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prisoners; Department of Corrections- and jailer-issued identification. [HB-1405]
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card through the Department of Motor Vehicles and that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall expedite the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for such government-issued identification card and the issuance of such identification. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections, in coordination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, annual report. [SB-456]
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 General. The bill creates the Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee) made up of four members of the General Assembly, nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, subject to criteria described in the bill, and two nonvoting members, appointed as described in the bill, who monitor
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0393) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Online educational courses; DOC to establish, etc., an educational program for prisoners. [HB-1121]
Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means for prisoners to earn degrees and postsecondary education credentials through accessing online degree and credential programs that are offered by George Mason University, Old Dominion University, James Madison University, and comprehensive community colleges.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Continued To 2025 In Public Safety By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prisoners; Department of Corrections- and jailer-issued identification. [HB-1061]
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections may establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card through the Department of Motor Vehicles and that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall expedite the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for such government-issued identification card and the issuance of such identification. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections, in coordination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Incorporated By Public Safety on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
State correctional facilities; DOC to provide telephone calls and communication services. [SB-378]
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 initiating or receiving the communication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of one telephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unit at each correctional facility and that the maximum number of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than 20.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 01/31/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. [HB-988]
Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health services to persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The bill also requires local correctional facilities to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, annual report. [HB-555]
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 General. The bill creates the Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee) made up of four members of the General Assembly, nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, subject to criteria described in the bill, and two nonvoting members, appointed as described in the bill, who monitor
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0392) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Maternal Mortality Review Team; membership. [HB-204]
Maternal Mortality Review Team; membership. Adds a representative of the Department of Corrections and a representative of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, both appointed by the Governor, to the membership of the Maternal Mortality Review Team. Maternal Mortality Review Team; membership. Adds a representative of the Department of Corrections and a representative of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, both appointed by the Governor, to the membership of the Maternal Mortality Review Team.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0376) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Decreasing probation period; establishes criteria for mandatory reduction. [SB-80]
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 employment, and complying with or completing any state-certified or state-approved mental health or substance abuse treatment program. The bill provides that a court may decrease a defendant's probation period if warranted by the defendant's conduct and in the interests of justice and may do so without a hearing.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. [SB-1276]
Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a pathologist with whom the State Health Commissioner has entered into an agreement. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0478) on 03/24/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. [HB-2249]
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to expedite, to the extent possible, the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card and the issuance of such identification and documents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Appropriations on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Corrections, Department of; operations and costs. [HB-1914]
Department of Corrections; operations and costs. Establishes a formula for determining the estimated appropriations in a fiscal impact statement of any bill that adds a new felony for which imprisonment or commitment is authorized. The bill also provides that the cost of goods and services sold in stores in state correctional facilities shall not exceed 10 percent of the cost of the typical market rate for such goods and services in major retail stores that are not affiliated with any correctional facility and that the Department shall not receive
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Public Safety on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. [HB-1827]
Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a pathologist with whom the State Health Commissioner has entered into an agreement. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Cherry
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0477) on 03/24/2023
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Earned sentence credits; credits may be earned by any person committed to the custody of the DOC. [HB-1118]
Earned sentence credits. Provides that sentence credits may be earned by any person committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections (the Department), regardless of whether the person is confined in a state or local correctional facility. The bill allows inmates to earn more than 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served on a sentence for a conviction of robbery or carjacking, provided that the inmate did not use a weapon or threaten or harm another person during the commission of the offense. The bill allows inmates to earn enhanced
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Stricken From Docket By Courts Of Justice (18-y 0-n) on 01/28/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Staffing levels, employment conditions, and compensation at DOC; continued study, appropriations. [HJR-61]
Study; staffing levels, employment conditions, and compensation at Virginia Department of Corrections; report. Continues the joint committee of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions; the House Committee on Public Safety; the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services established by House Joint Resolution No. 29 (2020) and continued by House Joint Resolution 522 (2021, Special Session I) to study staffing levels, employment conditions, and compensation at the Virginia Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Bill Text As Passed House And Senate (hj61er) on 03/08/2022