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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 HB 1712.
Introduced
Jan 8, 2025
Last Action
Apr 2, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 0 co
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619)
Enacted, Chapter 619 (Effective 07/01/2025)
Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
Signed by President as reenrolled
Reenrolled bill text (SB1194ER2)
Reenrolled
Governor's recommendation adopted
House concurred in Governor's recommendation (89-Y 7-N)
Governor's substitute printed (SB1194S3)
Governor's recommendation received by Senate
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1194)
Signed by President
Enrolled
Signed by Speaker
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1194ER)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1194)
Conference substitute printed 25108057D-S2
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
Conference report agreed to by House (58-Y 39-N)
Amended by conference committee
Delegates: Watts, Hope, Hodges
Conferees appointed by House
Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
Conferees appointed by Senate
Senators: Deeds, Carroll Foy, Obenshain
House insisted on substitute
House requested conference committee
House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 37-N)
Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
Read third time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1194)
Passed House with substitute (59-Y 37-N)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Read second time
Committee substitute printed 25107003D-H1
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 5-N)
Placed on Calendar
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Read first time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1194)
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
Reading of substitute waived
Read second time
Rules suspended
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
Committee substitute printed 25106653D-S1
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1194)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103606D
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Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619)
R. Creigh Deeds