Virginia General Assembly Bills and Issues
Year
Bill Status
Close Votes
Chief Patron
HB16
Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated.
Chief Patron:
Cia Price
Status: Passed
Close Floor Vote
HB17
Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection, responsibility for collections.
Chief Patron:
Cia Price
Status: Passed
2 Close Floor Votes
HB35
Restorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use.
Chief Patron:
Joshua Cole
Status: In Senate
HB80
Civilian deaths in custody; local and regional adult correctional facilities failure to report.
Chief Patron:
Cia Price
Status: In Senate
Close Floor Vote
HB91
Minors; limiting room or cell confinement in a juvenile correctional facility, report.
Chief Patron:
Holly Seibold
Status: Passed
HB126
Local, regional, and community correctional facilities; access to counsel for inmates.
Chief Patron:
Katrina Callsen
Status: Passed
HB173
State correctional facilities; visitation policies, annual reports.
Chief Patron:
Bonita Anthony
Status: Passed
Close Floor Vote
HB209
Peer recovery specialists; VDH & DOC to develop guidelines for hiring.
Chief Patron:
Cia Price
Status: Passed
HB294
Malicious bodily injury to correctional officers; penalties.
Chief Patron:
Mitchell D Cornett
Status: In Senate
HB295
Aggravated murder; adds correctional officers to definition, punishment.
Chief Patron:
Mitchell D Cornett
Status: Killed
HB296
State correctional facilities; visitation policies, reports.
Chief Patron:
Holly Seibold
Status: Passed
HB361
Earned sentence credits; incarceration while awaiting trial or pending an appeal.
Chief Patron:
Holly Seibold
Status: Passed
2 Close Floor Votes
HB454
DCJS; removes requirement to develop model addiction recovery program.
Chief Patron:
Rodney Willett
Status: Passed
HB455
Va. Opioid Use Red. & Jail-Based Substance Use Disorder Trtmt. and Transition Fund; grant procedure.
Chief Patron:
Rodney Willett
Status: Passed
HB482
Local and Regional Jails, State Board of; supervision by Office of Dept. of Corrections Ombudsman.
Chief Patron:
Patrick Hope
Status: Consolidated
HB553
Corrections, Department of; language services for offenders.
Chief Patron:
Jessica Anderson
Status: Passed
Close Floor Vote
HB726
Credit for time spent in confinement while awaiting trial; extradition or fugitive warrant.
Chief Patron:
Will Davis
Status: Passed
HB860
Local & Reg. Jails, St. Bd.; standards, etc., regarding lactation policies for incarcerated persons.
Chief Patron:
Rae Cousins
Status: Passed
HB861
Pregnant & postpartum inmates; reporting requirements of state, regional, & local correctional fac.
Chief Patron:
Rae Cousins
Status: Passed
HB1041
Incarcerated individuals; establishment of general system of schools, etc.
Chief Patron:
Betsy Carr
Status: Passed
HB1162
State correctional facilities; required education or vocational training.
Chief Patron:
Wendell Walker
Status: In House
HB1246
State correctional facilities; visitation privileges, Visitation Enhancement Program established.
Chief Patron:
Jackie Glass
Status: Killed
HB1280
State correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment & education program, report.
Chief Patron:
Joshua Cole
Status: In Senate
HB1326
Geriatric prisoners; conditional release, Parole Board shall promulgate regulations.
Chief Patron:
Anne Ferrell Tata
Status: Killed
HB1329
Local correctional facilities; reimbursements for housing convicted state felons.
Chief Patron:
Lee Ware
Status: Killed