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SB 1217 Private police department; definition.
Introduced by: Thomas K. Norment, Jr. | Bryce E. Reeves | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Private police departments. Defines "private police department" as any police department that employs private police officers operated by an entity authorized by statute or an act of assembly to establish a private police department. The bill provides that the authority of a private police department is limited to real property owned, leased, or controlled by the entity and, if approved by the local chief of police or sheriff, any contiguous property. The bill also provides that private police departments and private police officers shall be subject to and comply with the relevant laws and regulations governing municipal police departments and shall meet the minimum compulsory training requirements for law-enforcement officers. The bill provides further that any private police department in existence on January 1, 2013, that was not otherwise established by statute or an act of assembly and whose status as a private police department was recognized by the Department of Criminal Justice Services at that time may continue to operate as a private police department. provided that it complies with the necessary requirements. The private police departments so recognized by the Department are the Aquia Harbor Police Department, the Babcock and Wilcox Police Department, the Bridgewater Airpark Police Department, the Carilion Police and Security Services Department, the Kings Dominion Park Police Department, the Kingsmill Police Department, the Lake Monticello Police Department, the Massanutten Police Department, and the Wintergreen Police Department. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill incorporates SB 939 and is identical to HB 1606.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/14/15 15102661D pdf | impact statements
- 01/21/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104082D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/15 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1217ER) pdf | impact statements
- 03/16/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/14/15 15102661D
- 01/14/15 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/21/15 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104082D-S1
- 01/22/15 Senate: Incorporates SB939
- 01/23/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/15 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/23/15 Senate: Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/15 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/26/15 Senate: Read second time
- 01/26/15 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/26/15 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 15104082D-S1
- 01/26/15 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1217S1
- 01/27/15 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/15 House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/30/15 House: Read first time
- 01/30/15 House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
- 02/06/15 House: Assigned MPPS sub: #2
- 02/12/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/15 House: Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with amendments (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/15 House: Read second time
- 02/17/15 House: Read third time
- 02/17/15 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/17/15 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/17/15 House: Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/15 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/15 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/19/15 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/15 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/24/15 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1217ER)
- 02/24/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/26/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/15 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/26/15
- 02/26/15 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
- 03/16/15 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 224 (effective 3/16/15)
- 03/16/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224)