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Police (State)

Passed

P HB 2372

Senior Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing senior adult. The bill defines a missing senior adult as an adult who is over 60 years of age, suffers from a cognitive impairment that renders him unable to provide care to himself without assistance (including a diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease or dementia), and whose whereabouts are unknown and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to his health and safety. The program is similar to the Amber Alert Program for missing children. The bill also provides that no police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any policy that requires a waiting period before a missing senior adult report will be accepted. Such departments are also required, within two hours of receiving such a report, to enter identifying and descriptive information about the missing senior adult into the Virginia Criminal Information Network and the National Crime Information Center Systems, forward the information to the Department of State Police, notify other law-enforcement agencies in the areas, and initiate an investigation of the report. This bill is identical to SB 1117.
Patron - Dudley

P HB 2410

Virginia Amber Alert Program. Amends the definition of an "abducted child" to include a person who is enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth regardless of age.
Patron - Athey

P HB 2752

Virginia Amber Alert Program; use of certain technology. Requires the State Police, where appropriate and when an existing system is available, to use automatic dialing-announcing device technology to alert residents in a particular geographic area of an Amber Alert. The calls would be targeted to the area where the abducted child was most recently seen. An automatic dialing-announcing device is one that selects and dials telephone numbers to disseminate a prerecorded or synthesized message.
Patron - Hurt

P HB 3008

Uniform crime reports; distributed in an electronic format. States that the Superintendent of State Police shall publish and distribute uniform crime reports in an electronic format to the General Assembly and office of the Governor; the availability of the reports shall be publicized to all law-enforcement agencies, attorneys for the Commonwealth, and the courts.
Patron - Marsden

P SB 1117

Senior Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing senior adult. The bill defines a missing senior adult as an adult who is over 60 years of age, suffers from a cognitive impairment that renders him unable to provide care to himself without assistance, and whose whereabouts are unknown and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to his health and safety. The program is similar to the Amber Alert Program for missing children. The bill also provides that no police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any policy that requires a waiting period before a missing senior adult report will be accepted. Such departments are also required, within two hours of receiving such a report, to enter identifying and descriptive information about the missing senior adult into the Virginia Criminal Information Network and the National Crime Information Center Systems, forward the information to the Department of State Police, notify other law-enforcement agencies in the areas, and initiate an investigation of the report. This bill is identical to HB 2372.
Patron - Rerras

Failed

F HB 1618

Department of State Police; immigration laws. States that it is the responsibility of the Governor to enter into an agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allow the Department of State Police to enforce civil immigration laws.
Patron - Frederick

F HB 2255

Amber Alerts; secondary school students. Amends the definition of an abducted child for purposes of the Amber Alert program to include a person enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth, regardless of age. Current law applies only to children 17 years of age or younger. The amendment would allow an Amber Alert to be issued in the case of a missing high school student who is over the age of 17. This bill was incorporated into HB 2410.
Patron - Waddell

F HB 2933

Enforcement of federal immigration laws. Requires that the Commonwealth of Virginia enter into an agreement with the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement to authorize certain members of the Department of State Police and employees of the Department of Corrections to enforce civil immigration violations in the Commonwealth. This bill was incorporated into HB 2926.
Patron - Miller, J.H.

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