VA HB2363 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-05 - Left in Public Safety
Pending: House Public Safety Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-05 - Left in Public Safety
Pending: House Public Safety Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Department of Corrections; designated employees with same power as sheriff or law-enforcement officer. Allows the Department of Corrections to designate employees to have the same power as a sheriff or a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of enforcing the criminal laws of the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Department can designate such employees with internal investigations authority to have such law-enforcement powers in the investigations of allegations of criminal behavior affecting the operations of the Department. Accordingly, the bill makes technical changes to additional sections that reference such designated employees such as in the definition of a law-enforcement officer used in various places throughout the Code and for the purposes of the Line of Duty Act, assault and battery of a law-enforcement officer, retired law-enforcement officers being able to carry a concealed handgun, and certain retired law-enforcement officers being able to purchase their service handgun or other weapon.
Title
Corrections, Dept. of; designated employees with same power as sheriff or law-enforcement officer.
Sponsors
| Del. Tony Wilt [R] | Del. Eric Phillips [R] |
Roll Calls
2025-01-30 - House - Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | House | Left in Public Safety |
| 2025-01-31 | House | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2363) |
| 2025-01-30 | House | Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N) |
| 2025-01-21 | House | Assigned PS sub: Public Safety |
| 2025-01-08 | House | Referred to Committee on Public Safety |
| 2025-01-08 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102099D |
