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Law-enforcement officers; training standards.

It became law on Mar 26, 2024.

VA HB 586 · House Bill · 2024

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Became law
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+4
Latest action
Mar 26, 2024

What it does

Training standards for law-enforcement officers; comprehensive harm reduction program; drug use. Requires theDepartment of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standardsand publish and periodically update model policies for law-enforcementpersonnel for a comprehensive harm reduction program that promotesscientifically proven methods of mitigating health risks associatedwith drug use and other high-risk behaviors, including the use ofnaloxone or other opioid antagonists to prevent opioid overdose deaths,in coordination with statewide naloxone training programs developedby the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Servicesand the Virginia Department of Health.

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Mar 26, 2024

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Law in Virginia. Agencies now write the rules that carry it out, and courts can stay or strike it.

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