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2021 SESSION
SB 1461 Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty.
Introduced by: Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty. Provides that any person who (i) offers, confers, or agrees to confer upon another any pecuniary benefit as consideration for the recipient to act in the unlawful delivery of items or contraband to prisoners or (ii) receives any pecuniary benefit or other consideration to act in in the unlawful delivery of items or contraband to prisoners shall be guilty of bribery, punishable as a Class 4 felony. The bill also provides that any law-enforcement officer, jail officer, or correctional officer who violates the provisions of the bill shall be decertified and shall be forever ineligible for reemployment as a law-enforcement officer, jail officer, or correctional officer in the Commonwealth.
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HISTORY
- 01/21/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21102737D
- 01/21/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/27/21 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/03/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote