HB 92 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Virginia State Justice Commission; purpose, membership.

Summary
Virginia State Justice Commission; purpose; membership. Renames the Virginia State Crime Commission as the Virginia State Justice Commission. The bill also expands the purpose of the Commission to include studying, reporting, and making recommendations in the areas of diversion, rehabilitation, reentry, collateral consequences of conviction, and equity and fairness in the criminal legal system. The bill reduces from six to three the number of House of Delegates members and adds to the Commission the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee, the Superintendent of State Police or his designee, and one nonlegislative citizen member to be appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security with an expertise in offender rehabilitation, reform, and reentry.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
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Governor
Introduced Dec 11, 2019 Last action Feb 7, 2020
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Dec 11, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rules
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Dec 11, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100895D
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1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

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