Inquiry and report of immigration status; persons charged with or convicted of certain crimes.
Summary
Inquiry and report of immigration status; personscharged with or convicted of certain crimes. Removes provisionsrequiring (i) jail officers to ascertain the citizenship of any inmatetaken into custody at a jail, (ii) probation and parole officersto inquire as to the citizenship status of an individual convictedof a felony in circuit court and referred to such officers, and (iii)officers in charge of correctional facilities to inquire as to thecitizenship of any person committed to a correctional facility, and therefore such information is not required to be reported to theCentral Criminal Records Exchange of the Department of State Police.The bill also removes the mandatory duty of the clerk of a courtcommitting a convicted alien to a correctional facility to furnishrelated court records to a United States immigration officer andthe requirement that an intake officer report to the Bureau of Immigrationand Customs Enforcement of the U.S. Department of Homeland Securityany juvenile detained on an allegation that the juvenile, believedto be in the United States illegally, committed a violent felony.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Apr 9, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 5, 2020 · House of Delegates Mar 5, 2020
How they voted
21–19
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 5, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
33
Key actions
7
Committee
6
Apr 9, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 996 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House (51-Y 45-N)
lower
Mar 2, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
lower
Feb 18, 2020
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Feb 18, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 3-N)
upper
Jan 8, 2020
Upper · Passed
Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104908D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Scott Surovell
DDemocratic
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