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House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety Subcommittee #1

Wright (Chairman), Gilbert, Webert, Fariss, Lewis

Clerk: Betty Bogese Russo
Staff:
Date of Meeting: February 24, 2012
Time and Place: Friday at 8:00 A.M. in HOUSE ROOM C.
Bills taken in numerical order, subj. to Chair's prerogative.

S.B. 224

Patron: Herring

Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for a battery through the application of physical force against a member of a family or household member. This provision addresses the decision in U.S. v. White from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010. The proposal also expands the list of offenses that may be counted as prior convictions for the purposes of enhancing the penalty for assault and battery of a family or household member to include unlawful wounding under § 18.2-51 and non-malicious injury by a caustic substance or fire, in violation of § 18.2-52.

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S.B. 389

Patron: Marsden

Pneumatic gun ordinances. Allows localities to enact an ordinance to prohibit the possession of pneumatic guns on school property, at a school function held on property open to the public, and on school buses. The bill further provides that an ordinance may not prohibit possession of a pneumatic gun by a law-enforcement officer, as part of the school's curriculum or activities, or in a closed container in a motor vehicle on school property or at a school function.

S.B. 541

Patron: Obenshain

Auxiliary police forces; Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training requirements.  Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards for all auxiliary police officers employed by or in any local or state government agency. Officers employed prior to July 1, 2012, are exempted from any initial training requirement until one year subsequent to the promulgation of such standards.

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