| VA | SB69 | Veto | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police, po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB250 | Veto | Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officers; interrogation practices. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall have the power and duty to establish a comprehensive framework for the custodial and noncustod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB776 | Veto | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States for no less than 60 months and who are both eligible for and have app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB207 | Pass | Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| VA | HB1022 | Pass | Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| VA | SB394 | Pass | Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| VA | SB88 | Pass | Decertification of law-enforcement officers and jail officers. Makes various changes to the provisions related to decertification of law-enforcement officers and jail officers. The bill provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services may co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| VA | HB435 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealth in the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190) |
| VA | HB586 | Pass | Training standards for law-enforcement officers; drug use. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies for law-enforcement personnel on the use of naloxone or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| VA | SB73 | Engross
Sine Die | Photo-monitoring system for traffic signals; proof of violation; retired law-enforcement officials. Allows a locality to employ a retired sworn law-enforcement officer, as defined in the bill, to review photographs, microphotographs, videotape, or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB593 | Engross
Prefile | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; Internet publication of personal information; exemption. Prohibits publication of the personal information of active and retired law-enforcement officers on the statewide geographic information system (GIS) if a request to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Special grand juries. Directs a circuit court to impanel a special grand jury when an unarmed person is killed by a law-enforcement officer or a correctional officer, as those terms are defined in relevant law, to investigate and report on any condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1321 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions. Provides that for the purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act a majority decision of a hearing panel shall be binding on the employing agency. Under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; vehicle equipment. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating with defective and unsafe equipment and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicles; improper tinting films, signs, decals, and stickers; issuing citations. Removes the provisions that prohibit a law-enforcement officer from lawfully stopping a motor vehicle for violations related to improper tinting films, signs, dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Removes the provision in the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act requiring that benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1226 | Intro
Prefile | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Removes the provision in the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act requiring that benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions. Provides that for the purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act a majority decision of a hearing panel shall be binding on the employing agency. Under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB927 | Intro
Prefile | Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1393 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1393 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalty. Removes the requirement that a law-enforcement officer have the immediate physical ability to place a person under arrest for the crime of fleeing from a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
