| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
