State correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment & education program, report.
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +9
- Latest action
- Jul 21
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Done)
Floor (Current step)
Law (Not started)
What it does
State correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment and educational programs; reentry planning. Expands the program assignments in which the Director of the Department of Corrections may place a prisoner while such prisoner is confined in a state correctional facility. The bill requires the Director to place a prisoner in an appropriate program assignment within (i) 90 days of the arrival of a prisoner sentenced to a new term of confinement to a state correctional facility or (ii) 60 days of a prisoner already in custody being transferred to a new state correctional facility and provides that participation in such program assignments shall be for an average of 30 hours…
What moved
Who is involved
- Josh ColeLead sponsor
- Cia PriceCo-sponsor
- Destiny LeVere BollingCo-sponsor
- Irene ShinCo-sponsor
- J.R. HensonCo-sponsor
- Jessica AndersonCo-sponsor
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
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Work with this bill
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money in Virginia.
- Who sits in the seats that vote on itA roster is not a certified tally, and a filing is not a place on the ballot.
- Who funds the people decidingA receipt is not backing. A contribution does not establish a policy motive.
- Who is paid to be heardNaming an institution is the filer's account, not a record of any meeting.
- Bills still moving in VirginiaNewest first, the ones that can still change