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
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
Committee Review
Dec 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Dec 11, 2019
Last action Jan 24, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
4
Key actions
1
Committee
1
Jan 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (9-Y 5-N)
upper
Dec 11, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rules
upper
Dec 11, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100894D
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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