Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; school safety mobile application.
Summary
Requires the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center (the Center) to develop or obtain a school safety mobile application to (i) facilitate the provision of real-time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week crisis intervention services by licensed clinicians, including support or crisis counseling, suicide prevention, and referral services to students and youth in the Commonwealth through calls, texts, and online chats and (ii) provide to students and youth in the Commonwealth a platform that is capable of receiving text, audio, images, or video to furnish information concerning a suspected, anticipated, or completed criminal violation. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
Bill status
in committee
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2019
Last action Feb 6, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jan 30, 2019
How they voted
37–0
Passed
Total votes 37
Jan 30, 2019
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
13
Key actions
2
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
lower
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 31, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1608E
upper
Jan 31, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Jan 31, 2019
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Jan 30, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (37-0)
senate
Jan 17, 2019
Committee
Rereferred to Finance
upper
Jan 9, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 9, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103999D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
SD
Siobhan Dunnavant
RRepublican
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