SB 770 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Correctional facilities, local, regional, and community; reviews of deaths of inmates, report.

Summary
State Board of Local and Regional Jails; deaths of inmates in local, regional, and community correctional facilities; reports. Consolidates reports made by the State Board of Local and Regional Jails related to the Board's reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility into one annual report to be published on the Board's website on or before July 1, 2025, and each July 1 thereafter and submitted to the Governor, the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the President pro tempore of the Senate. The annual report shall include (i) a summary of the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility conducted in the prior year, including any trends or similarities identified by such reviews; (ii) any recommendations for policy changes to reduce the number of inmate deaths; and (iii) any recommendations for changes to the policies and procedures for conducting reviews of the deaths of inmates to improve the operations, safety, and security of local, regional, or community correctional facilities.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Dec 19, 2024 Signed Mar 21, 2025
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What changed between versions

Enrolled Chaptered · 1 edit
MINOR
This bill was finalized and enacted into law as Chapter 350 of the 2025 Virginia Acts of Assembly. The substantive text of the legislation regarding the State Board of Local and Regional Jails and inmate death reviews remained unchanged from the enrolled version, with only formatting and chapter number adjustments made during the final chaptering process.
TECHNICAL

Added chapter number (Chapter 350) and approval date (March 21, 2025) to the final enacted version. The actual legislative text of the bill was not substantively modified.

Floor votes · Senate Jan 20, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 12, 2025

How they voted

400
Passed
Total votes 40
Jan 20, 2025
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
19 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
10
Committee
6
Mar 21, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 350 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Feb 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB770ER)
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Assigned PS sub: Public Safety
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
lower
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Dec 19, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

Sponsors