HB80 Civilian deaths in custody; failure to comply with annual report; funding for local and regional adult correctional facilities.

Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price (Chief Patron) [D]

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Allows the Governor discretion to direct the Comptroller to withhold all further payment to any local or regional adult correctional facility of all funds, or of any part of them, appropriated and payable by the Commonwealth to such correctional facility, for any and all purposes, for failure to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails information required by law regarding civilian deaths in custody until such correctional facility complies.

12/31/2025 Referred to Committee on House-Public Safety

1/16/2026 Assigned House-MPPS sub: H-MPPS Public Safety subcommittee #2

1/22/2026 House H-PS Subcommittee #2 amendment offered

1/22/2026 House H-PS #2 subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5‑Y 2‑N)Vote

1/28/2026 House-Public Safety committee amendment agreed to

1/30/2026 Senate Referred to Committee on S-Rehabilitation and Social Services​

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HB482 State Board of Local and Regional Jails.
Introduced by Patrick A. Hope (Chief Patron) [D]

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State Board of Local and Regional Jails. Moves supervision of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails from the Department of Corrections to the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman within the Office of the State Inspector General.

1/12/2026 Referred to Committee on House-Public Safety

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HB489 Restorative justice practices.
Introduced by Patrick A. Hope (Chief Patron) [D]

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Restorative justice practices. Provides that restorative justice communications, as defined in the bill, are not admissible or subject to discovery and disclosure of such communications shall not be compelled in any judicial or administrative proceeding, arbitration, or mediation. The bill prohibits any person involved in a restorative justice practice, as defined in the bill, from testifying about any phase of such practice in any judicial or administrative proceeding, arbitration, or mediation except in certain circumstances enumerated in the bill.

1/12/2026 Referred to Committee for House-Courts of Justice

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HB860 Local & Regional jails, St. Bd.; standards/regulations for pregnant/postpartum incarcerated person
Introduced by: Rae Cousins (Chief Patron) [D]

View the bill here.State Board of Local and Regional Jails; work group to review standards and regulations for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated persons in local and regional correctional facilities; report. Directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to convene a work group to conduct a review of existing standards for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated persons in local and regional correctional facilities and to develop recommendations for new standards and recommendations for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated persons by considering certain best practices. The bill requires the work group to report such findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees for Courts of Justice, the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, and the House Committee on Public Safety by July 1, 2027, and to adopt regulations consistent with such findings and recommendations by December 1, 2028.

1/13/2026 Referred to House -Committee on H-Rules

1/23/2026 House-RUL Studies Subcommittee recommends reporting (5‑Y 0‑N)

1/27/2026 House. Reported from House-Rules committee (18‑Y 0‑N)

1/28/2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB860)

1/30/2026 House. Read second time and engrossed

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HB861 Reporting requirements of state, regional, and local correctional facilities; pregnant and postpartum inmates.
Introduced by: Rae Cousins (Chief Patron) [D]

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Reporting requirements of state, regional, and local correctional facilities; pregnant and postpartum inmates. Requires the warden or other official in charge of a state correctional facility and the sheriff in charge of the local correctional facility, or his designee, or the jail superintendent of the regional correctional facility, or his designee, to compile a monthly summary of all of the following and submit such summary to the Director of the Department of Corrections or State Board of Local and Regional Jails, as applicable, each month: (i) the number of prisoners known to be pregnant in the facility, (ii) the number of prisoners in postpartum recovery in the facility, (iii) the number of women prisoners in the facility, (iv) the total number of prisoners in the facility, (v) the number of deaths of prisoners in the facility, (vi) the number of deaths of prisoners known to be pregnant in the facility, and (vii) the number of deaths of prisoners in postpartum recovery in the facility. The bill also requires such summary to be submitted to the Maternal Mortality Review Team and the Chairs of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice.

Lastly, the bill requires the sheriff in charge of the local correctional facility, or his designee, or the jail superintendent of the regional correctional facility, or his designee, to compile a monthly summary of all written reports received pursuant to relevant law regarding use of restraints on any prisoner known to be pregnant or any prisoner who is in postpartum recovery and any body cavity search of a pregnant prisoner and submit such summary to the Board each month.

1/13/2026 Referred to House -Committee on H-Public Safety

1/23/2026 House Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2

1/30/2026 House. Reported from H-Public Safety committee with substitute (21‑Y 0‑N)

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HB1084 Collection and reporting of data related to adults charged with a criminal offense punishable by confinement in jail or a term of imprisonment; Virginia Longitudinal Data System.

Introduced by: Phil M. Hernandez (Chief Patron) [D}

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Collection and reporting of data related to adults charged with a criminal offense punishable by confinement in jail or a term of imprisonment; Virginia Longitudinal Data System. Allows the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to contribute the statewide and locality-level data it collects on adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by incarceration to the Virginia Longitudinal Data System administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

1/14/2026 Referred to House-Committee for H-Courts of Justice​

1/23/2026 House. Assigned H-CJ sub: Criminal

1/26/2026 House-CJ Criminal subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9‑Y 0‑N)

1/28/2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1084)

1/30/2026 House. Read first time

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HB1508 Department of Corrections; investigations of violent incidents.
Introduced by: Eric Phillips (Chief Patron) [R]

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Designates the Department of State Police as the law-enforcement agency responsible for investigating alleged serious violent incidents that result in the death of either an inmate or officer.

1/23/2026 House Committee Referral Pending

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