Commending Daniel M. Gade.
Sponsored bills
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
Commending Peter A. Blake.
Commending Scott McGeary.
Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration. Requires the Department of Corrections to compensate local jailsfor the actual cost, based on the rate calculated in the CompensationBoard's annual Jail Cost Report, of incarcerating felons who should otherwise be confined in a state correctional facility. Currentlaw provides for local jails to be compensated at the rate set forthin the general appropriation act.
Celebrating the life of Ivan Herman Tepper.
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the HonorableYvonne Bond Miller's service in the Virginia General Assembly.
Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses;concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits atthe same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offensefor certain enumerated offenses. The bill also specifies that theprovision in current law providing that a person who has been convictedof certain enumerated offenses may earn a maximum of 4.5 sentencecredits for each 30 days served on any sentence for such offensesalso applies to any other sentence that is to be served concurrentwith or consecutive to any such sentence. The bill also clarifiesthat the provisions regarding the earning of credits for concurrentand consecutive sentences apply retroactively.
Commemorating the life and legacy of Susan G.Gibson.