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Powers and duties for operation of local and regional correctional facilities and courthouse security; attorney access to courthouses and communication and visitation with incarcerated clients; penalty. Provides that if a sheriff allows courthouse employees to bypass any security screening required to enter a courthouse, such sheriff shall also exempt from the security screening any attorney who displays a valid Virginia State Bar-issued bar card and a government-issued identification. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any attorney who has had his license to practice law in the Commonwealth suspended or revoked and who displays a Virginia State Bar-issued bar card in an effort to be exempt from the security screening. The bill also requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to develop and establish minimum standards to ensure that attorneys have sufficient opportunities to have confidential visits with their clients. Lastly, the bill requires any telephonic, electronic, or web-based communication system for prisoners that is offered by a sheriff or jail superintendent who operates a local correctional facility to include a confidential means for a prisoner to communicate with his attorney at regular and reasonable times.
Introduced
Jan 21, 2026
Last Action
Mar 11, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 7 co
Senate substitute with amendments agreed to by House (84-Y 13-N 1-A)
Read third time
Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (34-Y 6-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute as amended
Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to
Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
Passed by for the day
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (13-Y 2-N)
Committee substitute printed 26108386D-S1
Senate committee offered
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services to Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)
Read third time and passed House (83-Y 14-N 0-A)
Read second time
Engrossed by House as amended
committee amendments agreed to
Read first time
Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 2-N)
House subcommittee offered
Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
Presented and ordered printed 26105053D
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Senate substitute with amendments agreed to by House (84-Y 13-N 1-A)
Nadarius E. Clark
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Bonita G. Anthony