Bill Text: VA HJR46 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Starr Alert Program; Department of State Police to study need for an alert program, etc.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-18 - Left in Rules [HJR46 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-HJR46-Introduced.html
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\r\n\r\nHOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 46\r\n
\r\n\r\nOffered January 10, 2024\r\n
\r\n\r\nPrefiled January 9, 2024\r\n
\r\nRequesting the Department of State Police to study the need \r\n for an alert program, to be known as the Starr Alert Program, to notify vehicle repair shops of nearby hit-and-run incidents. Report.
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\r\n\r\nPatron-- Anthony\r\n
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\r\n\r\nReferred to Committee on Rules\r\n
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\r\n \r\n \nWHEREAS, in 2022, there were an estimated 122,434 crashes in the Commonwealth, resulting in 1,005 fatalities and \r\n 59,404 injuries; and
\r\n \r\n \nWHEREAS, in 2022, 2.5 percent of \r\n such crashes, totaling 5,517 crashes, were hit-and-run incidents; and
\r\n \r\n \nWHEREAS, hit-and-run incidents present a challenge to law enforcement in identifying the offending vehicle; and
\r\n \r\n \nWHEREAS, vehicles that have been involved in a reported \r\n hit-and-run incident may require repair or maintenance soon or immediately \r\n after such reported incident; and
\r\n \r\n \nWHEREAS, vehicle repair shops may be able to help law enforcement identify vehicles involved in hit-and-run \r\n incidents; and
\r\n \r\n \nWHEREAS, the Department of State \r\n Police already administers AMBER, Blue, Critically \r\n Missing Adult, Missing Person with Autism, and Senior Alert \r\n Programs, using various communication systems to transmit data to the \r\n community and entities regarding ongoing awareness and response to situations, \r\n and a similar program, to be known as the Starr \r\n Alert Program, could notify repair shops of vehicles \r\n of interest in hit-and-run incidents; now, therefore, be it
\r\n \r\n \nRESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, \r\n That the Department of State Police be requested to study the need for an alert program, to be known as the Starr Alert Program, to \r\n notify vehicle repair shops of nearby hit-and-run incidents.
\r\n \r\n \nIn conducting its study, the Department of \r\n State Police shall (i) investigate and \r\n collect data regarding how an alert program to notify \r\n vehicle repair shops of nearby reported hit-and-run incidents may be \r\n implemented, the cost of such implementation, how often such a program would be used, and the efficacy of such program in improving post-crash service; (ii) collect traffic incident data, \r\n including the number of reported hit-and-run incidents \r\n that have occurred in the last three years; (iii) \r\n estimate the number of vehicle repair shops that would participate in such a \r\n program and any registration process to be part of such system, collect \r\n suggestions from such shops to successfully \r\n implement such an alert, and investigate the effect of \r\n such participation on identifying vehicles involved in hit-and-run incidents; (iv) collaborate with the local law-enforcement agencies \r\n to determine needs and capabilities for reporting \r\n incidents and associated data through the system, how such a program would \r\n affect police efforts in responding to reported hit-and-run incidents, and any \r\n problems or insights with the sharing of such data; and \r\n (v) determine an appropriate alert radius from a given reported hit-and-run incident site to vehicle repair shops and \r\n whether such an alert would be feasible for widespread use in all areas of the \r\n Commonwealth.
\r\n \r\n \nAll agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to \r\n the Department of State Police for this study, upon \r\n request.
\r\n \r\n \nThe Department of State Police \r\n shall complete its meetings by November 30, 2024, and shall submit to the \r\n Governor and the General Assembly an executive summary and a report of its \r\n findings and recommendations for publication as a House or Senate document. The \r\n executive summary and report shall be submitted as provided in the procedures \r\n of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of \r\n legislative documents and reports no later than the first day of the 2025 \r\n Regular Session of the General Assembly and shall be posted on the General \r\n Assembly's website.
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