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Department of Criminal Justice Services; training curriculum on certain arrests. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a training curriculum for law-enforcement agencies, law-enforcement officers, and special conservators of the peace on the discretion such officers can exercise regarding certain arrests. The bill requires that such training curriculum be created by July 1, 2027, and include (i) instruction on the scope and nature of law-enforcement officer discretion in arrest decisions, with particular emphasis on encounters with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, including individuals currently subject to an emergency custody order, a temporary detention order, or an involuntary admission order, and (ii) instruction on the immediate and long-term effects of arrests on individuals in need of mental health services due to a mental health crisis, including impacts on treatment outcomes as identified in substantially accepted peer-reviewed research literature. The bill requires any person employed as a law-enforcement officer prior to July 1, 2027, to review any course material or course criteria related to such curriculum by January 1, 2028, and any person employed as a law-enforcement officer on or after July 1, 2027, to review any course material or course criteria related to such curriculum within one year of his date of hire. Lastly, the bill directs the Criminal Justice Services Board to promulgate regulations pursuant to relevant law requiring special conservators of the peace to review any course material or course criteria related to such curriculum established by the bill by July 1, 2027. The bill requires any person applying for an initial or renewal registration as a special conservator of the peace on or after July 1, 2027 to review any course material or course criteria related to such curriculum as part of his compulsory training standards.As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Behavioral Health Commission. This bill is identical to SB 1194.
Introduced
Jan 4, 2025
Last Action
Apr 2, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 4 co
House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 5-N)
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639)
Enacted, Chapter 639 (Effective 07/01/25)
Signed by President as reenrolled
Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
Reenrolled bill text (HB1712ER2)
Reenrolled
Governor's recommendation adopted
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
Governor's substitute printed (HB1712H3)
Governor's recommendation received by House
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
Signed by President
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1712)
Enrolled
Signed by Speaker
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1712ER)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1712)
Conference substitute printed 25108053D-H2
Conference report agreed to by House (60-Y 39-N)
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Amended by conference committee
Conferees appointed by Senate
Delegates: Watts, Hope, Hodges
Conferees appointed by House
Senators: Deeds, Perry, Stanley
House acceded to request
Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
Senate requested conference committee
Senate substitute rejected by House (2-Y 94-N)
Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1712)
Committee substitute agreed to
Reading of substitute waived
Read third time
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
Passed by for the day
Rules suspended
Committee substitute printed 25107341D-S1
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N)
Read second time
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
Read first time
Reported from Appropriations (14-Y 8-N)
Assigned Approps sub: Transportation & Public Safety
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and referred to Appropriations (16-Y 6-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1712)
Committee substitute printed 25106008D-H1
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N)
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1712)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103602D
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639)
Vivian E. Watts