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House of Delegates Committee on Public Safety
The Public Safety Committee deals with legislation affecting public safety, including regulations for correctional facilities, firearms, and law enforcement training.
Committee Chair: Delegate Tony Wilt
Committee Members: Wilt (Chair), Fariss (Vice Chair), Webert, Freitas, Campbell, R.R., Davis, Batten, Wiley, Ballard, Williams, Cordoza, March, Hope, Kory, Simon, Rasoul, Plum, Bourne, Jenkins, Williams Graves, Mundon King, Clark
The following bills have been reported out of the House Public Safety Committee for 2022.
- HB 10 Resident concealed handgun permits; fees.
- HB 11 Concealed handgun permits; penalties.
- HB 70 Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; minimum rights.
- HB 123 Firefighting, emerg. medical services, or law-enforcement equipment & vehicles; destroying, penalty.
- HB 147 Local correctional facilities and lock-ups; minimum standards.
- HB 170 Correctional facilities; work release programs.
- HB 204 Firearms; sale and transfer, criminal history record information check delay.
- HB 228 Juvenile boot camps; eliminates authority of the Department of Juvenile Justice to establish.
- HB 231 Military personnel; increases days for leaves of absence.
- HB 283 Human trafficking; training for law-enforcement personnel.
- HB 325 Firearms; reporting lost or stolen, civil penalty.
- HB 342 Police, Virginia State; removes obsolete language relating to the teletype system formerly used.
- HB 435 Parole Board; powers and duties.
- HB 509 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk, penalties.
- HB 517 Chief Resilience Officer; clarifies designation and role.
- HB 642 Health care coverage; premium payments for certain service members.
- HB 665 Correctional facilities, state; fees associated with inmates.
- HB 746 Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund; created.
- HB 750 Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition.
- HB 813 Law-enforcement agencies; acquisition and use of military property.
- HB 827 Firearms; control by localities of possession or carrying.
- HB 833 Group violence intervention; definition, Operation Ceasefire Grant Fund created.
- HB 929 Firearms, certain; transfer, criminal history record information check exemption.
- HB 989 Jails, local; Department of Corrections shall compensate for cost of incarceration.
- HB 1000 Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements of members.
- HB 1053 Correctional facilities, local; fees associated with inmates.
- HB 1054 Residential customers; disconnection prohibitions for certain utilities.
- HB 1060 Critically missing adult; expands definition, receipt of reports.
- HB 1130 Law-enforcement officers, retired sworn; purchase of service handguns or other weapons.
- HB 1191 Marcus alert system; participation in the system is optional for localities, etc.
- HB 1197 Secretariat agency responsibilities; Department of Juvenile Justice.
- HB 1203 Suicide Prevention Coordinator; position created in DVS, report.
- HB 1306 Firearms; removing, altering, etc., serial number, selling, etc., or possessing.
- HB 1332 Correctional facility; intentionally covering, removing, etc., a security camera, penalty.
- HB 1339 Facial recognition technology; redefines, local law enforcement and campus police to utilize.
- HB 1360 Virginia National Guard; promotion of state-sponsored group term life insurance program.