Sen. Steve Newman

Custody and transportation of persons subject to emergency custody or temporary detention order; alternative custody; auxiliary police officers. Allows auxiliary police officers to execute emergency custody orders and provide transportation for a person subject to an emergency custody or temporary detention order, adds an employee or designee of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to the list of persons who may provide alternative transportation of a person who is subject to an emergency custody or temporary detention order, and provides that, in cases in which transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order is ordered to be provided by an alternative transportation provider, the primary law-enforcement agency that executes the order may transfer custody of the person to the alternative transportation provider immediately upon execution of the order, and that the alternative transportation provider shall maintain custody of the person from the time custody is transferred to the alternative transportation provider by the primary law-enforcement agency until such time as an evaluated is completed and custody of the person is transferred pursuant to a temporary detention order or the person is released upon a determination that the person does not meet the criteria for temporary detention. The bill also directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum training standards for auxiliary police officers who are called into service solely for the purpose of executing emergency custody orders and providing transportation for such person subject to an emergency custody order or providing transportation for a person in the temporary detention process.

Virginia Retirement System; employer contributions. Separates the employer contribution for Virginia Retirement System (VRS) employers participating in the Hybrid Retirement Plan into defined benefit and defined contribution components. The bill requires the Board of Trustees of VRS to certify to each employer their defined benefit contribution rate and to provide to each employer their estimated defined contribution amounts. Under current law, VRS is required to determine a single combined employer contribution rate that includes both the defined benefit and defined contribution provisions. Employer contributions are then applied first to the defined contribution component of the hybrid retirement program, with the remainder applied to the defined benefit component. The substantive provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. However, the bill directs VRS to make the preparations necessary for full implementation of the bill beginning July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 473.

Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds certain chemicals to the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule. This bill is identical to HB 193.

Study; Secretary of Health and HumanResources and Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; increaseuse of alternative custody arrangements for individuals subject toan emergency custody or temporary detention order; report. Directsthe Secretary of Health and Human Resources, together with the Secretaryof Public Safety and Homeland Security, to study options to increasethe use of alternative custody arrangements for individuals who aresubject to an emergency custody or temporary detention order andto report his findings and recommendations to the Governor and theChairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Education and Healthand Finance and Appropriations by October 1, 2022.

Ukraine; Russian invasion. Expressing thesense of the General Assembly on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Commending Harry Wason.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable FloraLonette Davis Crittenden.

Celebrating the life of the Reverend PatrickJoseph White.

Commending Anna Moir.