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HB 1250 Virginia Community Policing Act; data collection and reporting requirement.
Introduced by: Luke E. Torian | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Community Policing Act; data collection and reporting requirement. Prohibits law-enforcement officers and State Police officers from engaging in bias-based profiling, defined in the bill, in the performance of their official duties. The bill directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to create the Community Policing Reporting Database into which sheriffs, police forces, and State Police officers report certain data pertaining to motor vehicle or investigatory stops. The Department is directed to provide access to the database to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) for the purpose of analyzing motor vehicle and investigatory stops and records of complaints alleging the use of excessive force. The data analysis shall be used to determine the existence and prevalence of the practice of bias-based profiling and the prevalence of complaints alleging the use of excessive force. The bill requires that each time a local law-enforcement officer or State Police officer stops a driver of a motor vehicle the officer collect the following data based on the officer's observation or information provided to the officer by the driver: (i) the race, ethnicity, age, and gender of the person stopped; (ii) the reason for the stop; (iii) the location of the stop; (iv) whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or whether any persons were arrested; (v) if a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or crime charged; and (vi) whether the vehicle or any person was searched. The bill requires each state and local law-enforcement agency to also collect and report to the State Police the number of complaints the agency receives alleging the use of excessive force. The bill also requires the Director of DCJS to annually report the findings and recommendations resulting from the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data from the Database to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Attorney General beginning July 1, 2021. The report shall include information regarding any state or local law-enforcement agency that has failed or refused to report the required data. A copy of the report shall be provided to each attorney for the Commonwealth of the county or city in which a reporting law-enforcement agency is located.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102085D pdf | impact statements
- 02/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108864D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/20 House: Conference substitute printed 20109876D-H1 pdf
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1250ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/11/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1165) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Conference amendments
HISTORY
- 01/08/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102085D
- 01/08/20 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/15/20 House: Assigned PS sub: Public Safety
- 01/30/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/30/20 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/31/20 House: Reported from Public Safety (13-Y 9-N)
- 01/31/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/31/20 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 02/07/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 2-N)
- 02/09/20 House: Read first time
- 02/10/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/11/20 House: Read third time and passed House (62-Y 38-N)
- 02/11/20 House: VOTE: Passage (62-Y 38-N)
- 02/12/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/12/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/24/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108864D-S1
- 03/02/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/20 Senate: Read third time
- 03/05/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/05/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20108864D-S1
- 03/05/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 03/05/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 03/05/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 03/05/20 Senate: Amendment by Senator Reeves agreed to
- 03/05/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments HB1250S1
- 03/05/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (23-Y 16-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (59-Y 38-N)
- 03/05/20 House: Senate amendment #1 from Finance and Appropriations rejected by House (0-Y 98-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N)
- 03/05/20 House: Senate floor amendment by Senator Reeves agreed to by House (63-Y 32-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 32-N)
- 03/05/20 Senate: Senate insisted on amendment (31-Y 8-N)
- 03/05/20 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 03/05/20 House: House acceded to request
- 03/05/20 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/05/20 House: Delegates: Torian, Aird, Knight
- 03/05/20 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/05/20 Senate: Senators: Petersen, Deeds, McDougle
- 03/07/20 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 03/07/20 House: Conference substitute printed 20109876D-H1
- 03/07/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (62-Y 35-N)
- 03/07/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (62-Y 35-N)
- 03/08/20 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N)
- 03/18/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1250ER)
- 03/18/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/19/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/20/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 03/20/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/11/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1165 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/11/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1165)