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2024 SESSION


CHAPTER 458
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 53.1-134.1, relating to the Parole Board; voting requirements.
[H 913]
Approved April 4, 2024

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 53.1-134.1 as follows:

§ 53.1-134.1. Parole Board decisions; voting requirements.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, if the Parole Board adopts a rule or regulation requiring the concurrence of four or more members of the Parole Board to grant discretionary parole or conditional release, in the event that there are less than four members but at least three members on the Parole Board, then such requirement shall be satisfied upon a unanimous vote of all members on the Parole Board.