State correctional facilities; required education or vocational training.
Introduced: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Introduced
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +20
- Latest action
- Jul 21
Where it stands
Introduced (Current step)
Committee (Not started)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What it does
State correctional facilities; required education or vocational training; earned sentence credits classification levels. Requires a prisoner in a state correctional facility, as a part of his reentry plan developed and implemented by the Department of Corrections, to complete a high school equivalency test or vocational, technical, or other certification prior to such prisoner's release. The bill also provides that the annual review of a prisoner's classification level for earned sentence credits shall include such prisoner's quantifiable or measurable progress, as available, in any programs, job assignments, and educational curricula in which he is participating, such as test scores achieved or completion of a high school equivalency test or other trade or vocational certification.
What moved
Who is involved
- Wendell WalkerLead sponsor
- Anne Ferrell TataCo-sponsor
- Bill WileyCo-sponsor
- Buddy FowlerCo-sponsor
- Chris RunionCo-sponsor
- Delores OatesCo-sponsor
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Wendell Walker
- Anne Ferrell Tata
- Bill Wiley
- Buddy Fowler
- Chris Runion
- Delores Oates
- Ellen McLaughlin
- Eric Phillips
- Jason Ballard
- Jay Leftwich
- Justin Pence
- Karen Hamilton
- Keith Hodges
- Madison Whittle
- Mike Cherry
- Mike Webert
- Mitchell Cornett
- Otto Wachsmann
- Terry Kilgore
- Tommy Wright
- Tony Wilt
- Will Davis
- Will Morefield
- Wren Williams
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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.
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