Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principals.
Summary
Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosuresto school principals. Changes from discretionary to mandatory that the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriffof a county disclose to a school principal all instances where ajuvenile at the principal's school is a suspect in or has been chargedwith a violent juvenile felony, an arson offense, or a concealedweapon offense and adds an offense that requires a juvenile intakeofficer to make a report with the school division superintendentto the list of such instances that must be disclosed to a schoolprincipal for the protection of the juvenile, his fellow students,and school personnel.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Nov 19, 2019
Last action Feb 19, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 4, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 4, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
5
Committee
7
Amendments
2
Feb 17, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Feb 12, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Feb 4, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB59E
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 8, 2020
Upper · Passed
Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
upper
Nov 19, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Nov 19, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100294D
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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