Bill Text: VA SB438 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Juvenile detention home, group home, and residential care facility commissions; membership.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-07 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) [SB438 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-SB438-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §16.1-316 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§16.1-316. Number and terms of members; admission of additional local governing bodies.
A juvenile detention home, group home or other residential
care facility commission shall consist of not less than three members and shall
be comprised
composed of at least one member from each participating
political subdivision. In addition, the participating political subdivisions
may provide for the appointment of an alternate for each principal member of
such a commission. The alternate members may attend and participate in all
meetings of the commission and may vote in the absence of their respective
principals. Such members and alternates, if any, shall be appointed, after
consultation with the chief judge of the juvenile and domestic relations
district court, by the governing body. Neither the chief judge nor any judge of
the juvenile and domestic relations district court from his district shall be a
member of the commission. All members and alternates
shall have a background in law enforcement or corrections.
The term of office of all members and alternates, if any,
shall be for four years. When additional local governing bodies desire to join
the commission, they may do so upon the recommendation of the commission and
with the approval of the sponsoring local governing bodies. The number of
members which that
the applicant local governments will be entitled to appoint to such commission
and other conditions relating to the expansion of sponsoring membership shall
be determined by the agreement entered into between or among the sponsoring
local governments and such applicant local governments.
