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Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Marked sheriffs' office vehicles. Allows markedsheriffs' office vehicles to be painted solid colors other than brown or white.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Text
Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act;definitions. Includes deputy sheriffs under the coverage of the Law-EnforcementOfficers ProceduralGuarantee Act.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Commerce and Labor Bill Text
Telephone solicitations; charitable organizations for law-enforcementofficers. Requires a person associated with a criminal justice agency whomakes a telephone call for the purpose of soliciting contributions for acharitable organization comprised of members who are current or retired law-enforcementofficers to state that he is not calling on behalf of the criminal justiceagency or in the course of the criminal justice agency's official duties, andthat the charitable organization on whose behalf the telephone call is beingmade is comprised of members who are current or retired law-enforcementofficers. These disclosures are in addition to the identifying disclosuresrequired when telephone solicitation calls are made for commercial purposes.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Disregarding signal to stop; death of law-enforcementofficer; penalties. Provides that if a law-enforcement officerpursues a person who has disregarded a law-enforcement officer's signalto stop his motor vehicle and drives in willful and wanton disregardof such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation ofthe law-enforcement vehicle or to endanger people and the law-enforcementofficer is killed as a direct and proximate result of the pursuit,the person is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also increasesthe penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officerto stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officerfrom a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 2 misdemeanor. This bill isidentical to SB 368 (Watkins).
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Education Bill Text
Standards of Quality; support personnel. Requires eachlocal school board to establish a collaborative agreement with a locallaw-enforcement agency to employ one full-time school resource officer for eachschool.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Organ donor consent; law-enforcement officers. Eliminatesthe provision that, after identification of the next of kin of a decedent, theperson, institution or agent of such person or institution having custody ofthe dead body shall attempt to obtain consent for removal of the pituitary orother organs, glands, eyes or tissues for use in transplants or therapy.
Latest Action: 02/11/2008 - Read second time Bill Text
Law-enforcement officer uniform requirementfor arrests for speeding. Allows a law-enforcement officer toarrest a person for speeding without the requirement that he weara uniform, only that he display a badge.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; state and locallaw-enforcement officers. Permits members of the State PoliceOfficers' System, the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System, andlocal law-enforcement officials covered under the Virginia RetirementSystem whose localities have elected to provide benefits comparableto that of State Police Officers, to take full retirement (unreduced)if they have at least 25 years of creditable service, regardless oftheir age.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Failure to identify oneself to a law-enforcement officer;penalty. Provides that any person who while in a public place or a placeopen to the public refuses to identify himself at the request of alaw-enforcement officer in uniform or a properly identified police officer,when the surrounding circumstances reasonably require that public safetyrequires such identification, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Left in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Misdemeanor arrest or summons at discretion of law-enforcementofficer. Gives a law-enforcement officer the choice of issuing a summonsand releasing the person or arresting him for Class 1 and 2 misdemeanors. Undercurrent law, the law-enforcement officer must release the person on a summonsfor most Class 1 and 2 misdemeanors unless the person fails to stop theunlawful act or indicates that he will not appear as directed in the summons.The bill also requires the officer to arrest the person if he fails to stop theunlawful act; currently arrest is discretionary when the person fails to stopthe unlawful act.
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Latest Action: 02/13/2008 - Left in Finance Bill Text
Retirement benefits; public safety officers and statepolice officers. Makes legislation passed by the 2007 Session of theGeneral Assembly that increased retirement benefits for certain sheriffs,deputy sheriffs, public safety officers, and state police officers applicableto persons who retired from service on or after July 1, 2002. Under the 2007legislation, among other changes, the average final compensation retirementmultiplier for sheriffs and state police officers was increased from 1.7percent to 1.85 percent, and all deputy sheriffs of localities participating inthe Virginia Retirement System were provided LEOs retirement benefits.For any such person who retired from service on or after July1, 2002, but before July 1, 2007, any increase in retirement benefits as aresult of the bill would be made available on a prospective basis beginningJuly 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/02/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Local vehicle licenses. Allows localitiesto exempt from local vehicle license fees vehicles owned by membersand former members of authorized police volunteer citizen supportunits.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Text
Law-enforcement officers stopping vehicles. Requiresthat when law-enforcement officers pull over motorists, the law-enforcementofficers, whenever practicable, pull their vehicles off the roadway beforestopping.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Organ donor consent; law-enforcement officers. Eliminatesthe provision that, after identification of the next of kin of a decedent, theperson, institution or agent of such person or institution having custody ofthe dead body shall attempt to obtain consent for removal of the pituitary orother organs, glands, eyes or tissues for use in transplants or therapy.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Education Bill Text
Campus police; report of certain incidents to local law-enforcementagency. Requires the chief of the campus police department of a public orprivate institution of higher education to report the death or an alleged rapeof any person on campus property to the local law-enforcement agency of thelocality in which the institution is located. The local law-enforcement agencywould assume responsibility for leading the investigation, with cooperationfrom the institution of higher education.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Education Bill Text
Standards of Quality; support personnel. Requires eachlocal school board to establish a collaborative agreement with a locallaw-enforcement agency to employ one full-time school resource officer for eachschool.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Failure to identify oneself to a law-enforcement officer;penalty. Provides that any person who while in a public place or a placeopen to the public refuses to identify himself at the request of alaw-enforcement officer in uniform or a properly identified police officer,when the surrounding circumstances reasonably require that public safetyrequires such identification, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Extradition. Clarifies that a sheriff orpolice chief of a locality may hire a private entity to perform extraditionson behalf of the Commonwealth.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Number of deputies; personnel costs for newregional jail facility. Requires the Compensation Board to considerhiring and personnel costs in preparation for the opening of a regionaljail facility in fixing the number of deputies.
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Text
Number of deputies. Requires the number of full-timedeputies appointed by the sheriff of a county without a police force to befixed by the Compensation Board at not less than 10 deputies. The bill furtherrequires the number of full-time deputies appointed by the sheriff of a countyor city with a police force to be fixed by the Compensation Board at not lessthan two.
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