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Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs.

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

VA HB 2291 · House Bill · 2021

Stage
Session ended
Started in
House
Sponsors
4
Latest action
Feb 17, 2021

What it does

Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. Adds a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement agencies that may be overseen by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by a locality and adds a nonprobationary deputy sheriff of a sheriff’s office to those law-enforcement officers who are subject to such body if created by a locality. The bill provides that any disciplinary determinations made by the law-enforcement civilian oversight body on any nonprobationary deputy sheriff shall be advisory only and that if the sheriff's office declines to implement such disciplinary determination, the office shall create a public written record of its rationale for declining…

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Where it stands

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Current step)

    Passed first chamber · Feb 17, 2021

  4. Law (Needs attention)

    The session ended first

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Where it goes next

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