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SB 622 Corrections, State Board of; renamed as State Board of Local and Regional Jails, powers and duties.
Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
State Board of Corrections; rename as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop and establish operating procedures to maintain prisoners residing in state correctional facilities and under the supervision of Department of Corrections probation and parole, including establishing regulations for human research, prescribing rules to govern home/electronic incarceration programs, and prescribing rules regarding the wages paid to persons participating in programs under the supervision of probation and parole. The bill requires the State Board of Corrections, upon determining that a local correctional facility is not in compliance with the minimum standards for construction, equipment, administration, or operation of local correctional facilities, to provide written notice of such determination to the local correctional facility. The bill also renames the State Board of Corrections as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), authorizes the Board to appoint and employ an executive director, and requires the Board to report annually to the General Assembly and the Governor on the results of inspections and audits of local, regional, or community correctional facilities and the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102832D pdf
- 01/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106525D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/20 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB622ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102832D
- 01/07/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/24/20 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106525D-S1
- 01/24/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/04/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20106525D-S1
- 02/06/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB622S1
- 02/06/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/20 House: Read first time
- 02/13/20 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/21/20 House: Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/21/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/23/20 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 02/24/20 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/20 House: Read second time
- 03/04/20 House: Read third time
- 03/04/20 House: Passed House (95-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (95-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/20 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/20 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB622ER)
- 03/07/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/08/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/12/20 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/06/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)