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2024 SESSION
(SB15)GOVERNOR'S VETO
Pursuant to Article V, Section 6, of the Constitution of Virginia, I veto Senate Bill 15, which prohibits extradition for certain crimes.
This bill is aimed at medical professionals from other states who may be in Virginia and subject to an extradition.
The extradition process among the states has a long and successful history within an established legal framework required by the U.S. Constitution. This bill would undermine that framework and disrupt the extradition laws in all fifty states. Our cooperative extradition system could collapse if individual states were to carve out crimes for which they would not recognize codified laws because of differing political positions.
Accordingly, I veto this bill.