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Commonwealth Public Safety

Passed

P HB508

Eligibility for crime prevention specialists. Expands the list of those eligible for training as crime prevention specialists.
Patron - Drake

P HB511

Department of Criminal Justice Services; private security; penalty. Requires each applicant for initial registration, licensure or certification as a compliance agent, private security services training school or instructor or unarmed security officer to submit their fingerprints for the conduct of a criminal records check. The bill also requires an unarmed security officer applying for renewal between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2004 to submit his fingerprints for the purpose of a criminal background check. The bill also authorizes the Department to suspend a registration, license or certification based on the conviction of certain misdemeanors or any felony and provides that making a false statement on the fingerprint card shall be a Class 5 felony. In addition, the bill establishes compulsory minimum standards for armored car personnel and exempts from the requirement for licensure, registration or certification persons engaged in the business of a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. This bill is identical to SB 71.
Patron - Drake

P HB520

Virginia Fire Services Board; membership. Provides that the members of the Fire Services Board representing the State Fire Chiefs Association of Virginia, the Virginia Firemen's Association, the Virginia Association of Professional Firefighters, the Virginia Fire Service Council, the Virginia Fire Prevention Association, and the State Chapter of the International Association of Arson Investigators be members of the organizations that they are representing.
Patron - Devolites

P HB839

Thermal Imaging Camera Advisory Board and Fund. Establishes the Thermal Imaging Camera Fund administered by the Department of Fire Programs to assist local fire departments, other fire services organizations and local governments to purchase thermal imaging cameras.
Patron - Thomas

P HB1053

Powers and duties of the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Expands the compulsory training standards for basic training and recertification of law-enforcement officers and the statewide guidelines for policing programs to include sensitivity to cultural diversity and the potential for biased policing. The bill authorizes the Department to publish and disseminate a model policy or guideline that may be used by state and local agencies to ensure that law-enforcement personnel are sensitive to and aware of cultural diversity and the potential for biased policing.
Patron - Melvin

P SB71

Private security services. Requires each applicant for initial registration, licensure or certification as a compliance agent, private security services training school or instructor or unarmed security officer to submit his fingerprints for the conduct of a criminal records check. The bill also requires an unarmed security officer applying for renewal between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2004 to submit his fingerprints for the purpose of a criminal records check. The bill also authorizes the Department to suspend a registration, license or certification based on the conviction of certain misdemeanors or any felony and provides that making a false statement on the fingerprint card shall be a Class 5 felony. In addition, the bill establishes compulsory minimum standards for armored car personnel and exempts from the requirement for licensure, registration or certification persons engaged in the business of a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. This bill is identical to HB 511.
Patron - Reynolds

P SB222

Commonwealth Medal of Valor. Establishes the Commonwealth Public Safety Medal of Valor Board to recommend to the Governor any public safety officers to receive the Commonwealth Public Safety Medal of Valor as the highest award for valor by a public safety officer conferred by the Commonwealth.
Patron - Stolle

Failed

F HB222

Sheriffs; grievances. Includes deputy sheriffs under the Law-enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act.
Patron - Carrico

F HB962

Appropriations for law enforcement expenditures of local governments. Provides that any increase or decrease in HB 599 funding for law-enforcement expenditures of local governments shall equal the anticipated increase or decrease in total general fund revenue collections for the relevant fiscal year as provided in the general appropriations act for the biennium. Any changes in anticipated total general fund revenue collections as provided through amendments to the biennial budget in an odd year or as provided in the caboose bill shall have no affect on the percentage change in HB 599 funding. The percentage increase or decrease in HB 599 funding shall be determined solely from the general appropriations act that is passed prior to the beginning of the biennium. The bill also requires that HB 599 funding in the Governor's budget bill shall increase or decrease in the relevant fiscal year by the percentage change in anticipated total general fund revenue collections for such fiscal year as forecasted in the Governor's budget bill.
Patron - Almand

F HB1275

Department of Criminal Justice Services; certain information to be held confidential. Provides that neither the Department nor its employees shall release personal information, as defined in § 2.2-3801, submitted to the Department by private security services business regulants for the purpose of obtaining or renewing a license, certification or registration. The bill provides that nothing shall be construed to prohibit the release or publication of aggregate statistical information in a form that does not reveal the identity of such persons, except that access shall not be denied to the person who is the subject thereof. The bill also cross references this exemption from mandatory disclosure in the Freedom of Information Act.
Patron - Rust

F SB304

Crime Prevention in Minority Communities Program and Fund. Creates the Crime Prevention in Minority Communities Program and Fund, consisting of five urban inner-city minority communities with high crime rates and attendant social and economic problems. The Board of Criminal Justice Services is required to develop the Program and the Department of Criminal Justice Services must administer the Program and Fund. An advisory committee, whose members must represent a multi-disciplinary network of persons and organizations with expertise, experience, and interest in preventing and reducing crime in the minority community, is charged to assist the Department with the Program. State-funded grants are to be awarded to eligible communities on a competitive basis through the issuance of a request for proposals. Such communities are required to engage in various activities and perform several tasks directed toward community involvement, consensus building, dispelling myths about minorities, and preventing and reducing crime in the minority community. Further, eligible communities must also encourage the cooperation and participation of residents in the Program, and engage business and industry, minority community organizations and professional associations, the religious community, citizens, and local agencies in the community in fighting crime. This bill, substantially revised, was the recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African- American Males in Virginia in 1999.
Patron - Edwards

Carried Over

C HB399

Creating the Law Enforcement Electronic Command and Control Improvement Program; communication system improvement grant. Creates the Law Enforcement Electronic Command and Control Improvement Program and Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Under the bill, eligible police departments would receive matching grant funds up to $10,000 based on funds expended in the previous fiscal year to improve and modernize their communications system.
Patron - Lingamfelter

C HB403

Department of Criminal Justice Services; exemption from registration. Eliminates the exemption from registration as a private security service business any natural person otherwise required to be registered pursuant to § 9.1-139 who is employed by a business that is not a private security services business for the performance of his duties for his employer.
Patron - Weatherholtz

C HB506

Right to counsel during investigations of law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that during investigation or interrogation, law-enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians shall have the right to be represented by counsel at all stages of the proceedings.
Patron - Drake

C HB1225

Regulation of bail recovery agents aka bounty hunters. Defines a "bail recovery agent," also called a "bounty hunter," as any person employed for the purpose of apprehending either the principal on a bail bond or any fugitive from justice who has been released on bail. The bill also sets forth the requirements, set by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, for licensure (including mandatory training and insurance or bond) of such agents and limits on their activities. Currently, bail recovery agents are unregulated. The bill provides that no person shall be employed or act as a bail recovery agent in the Commonwealth without having first obtained a license from the Department on or before July 1, 2003.
Patron - Scott

C SB394

Appropriations for law enforcement expenditures of local governments. Provides that any increase or decrease in HB 599 funding for law-enforcement expenditures of local governments shall equal the anticipated increase or decrease in total general fund revenue collections for the relevant fiscal year as provided in the general appropriations act for the biennium. Any changes in anticipated total general fund revenue collections as provided through amendments to the biennial budget in an odd year or as provided in the caboose bill shall have no affect on the percentage change in HB 599 funding. The percentage increase or decrease in HB 599 funding shall be determined solely from the general appropriations act that is passed prior to the beginning of the biennium. The bill also requires that HB 599 funding in the Governor's budget bill shall increase or decrease in the relevant fiscal year by the percentage change in anticipated total general fund revenue collections for such fiscal year as forecasted in the Governor's budget bill.
Patron - Whipple

C SB516

Line of Duty Act; definition of disabled employee. Amends the definition of "disabled employee" to include any person who has become mentally or physically incapacitated on or after April 8, 1972, as a direct or proximate result of the performance of his duty.
Patron - Norment


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