Corrections, State Board of; renamed as State Board of Local and Regional Jails, powers and duties.
Summary
State Board of Corrections; rename as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop and establish operating procedures to maintain prisoners residing in state correctional facilities and under the supervision of Department of Corrections probation and parole, including establishing regulations for human research, prescribing rules to govern home/electronic incarceration programs, and prescribing rules regarding the wages paid to persons participating in programs under the supervision of probation and parole. The bill requires the State Board of Corrections, upon determining that a local correctional facility is not in compliance with the minimum standards for construction, equipment, administration, or operation of local correctional facilities, to provide written notice of such determination to the local correctional facility. The bill also renames the State Board of Corrections as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), authorizes the Board to appoint and employ an executive director, and requires the Board to report annually to the General Assembly and the Governor on the results of inspections and audits of local, regional, or community correctional facilities and the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Apr 6, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 6, 2020 · House of Delegates Mar 4, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 6, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
33
Key actions
10
Committee
12
Apr 6, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House (95-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 24, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 23, 2020
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
lower
Feb 21, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Feb 21, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB622S1
upper
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20106525D-S1
upper
Feb 4, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 24, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Jan 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102832D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Creigh Deeds
DDemocratic
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