VirginiaState correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment & education program, report.
What it does
State correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment and educational programs; reentry planning. Expands the program assignments in which the Director of the Department of Corrections may place a prisoner while such prisoner is confined in a state correctional facility. The bill requires the Director to place a prisoner in an appropriate program assignment within (i) 90 days of the arrival of a prisoner sentenced to a new term of confinement to a state correctional facility or (ii) 60 days of a prisoner already in custody being transferred to a new state correctional facility and provides that participation in such program assignments shall be for an average of 30 hours per week, calculated individually across the calendar year.
More detail
Finally, the bill expands upon the requirements for a prisoner's reentry plan, including requiring an assessment, if necessary, of a prisoner's readiness to take a high school equivalency test and any modifications needed for the prisoner to take or improve upon such test, and making available peer and group educational programs developed and led by qualified prisoners.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 4Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Latest
- Vote recorded Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 2Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1280)
- Feb 27Committee substitute printed 26108856D-S1Major
- Vote recorded Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 27Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Minor
- Feb 18Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social ServicesMinor
- Feb 18Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 17Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1280)
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 17Read third time and passed House (91-Y 5-N 0-A)Passed House
- Feb 16Engrossed by House - committee substituteMajor
- Feb 16committee substitute agreed toMajor
- Feb 16Read second timeMinor
- Feb 13Read first timeMinor
- Feb 11Committee substitute printed 26107749D-H1Major
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Reported from Appropriations with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 11Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)Minor
- Feb 11Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)Major
- Feb 11House subcommittee offered
- Feb 3Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1280)
- Jan 31Assigned HAPP sub: Transportation & Public SafetyMinor
- Jan 30Reported from Public Safety and referred to Appropriations (18-Y 3-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Public Safety. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 29Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 0-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 23Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2Minor
- Jan 14Referred to Committee on Public SafetyMinor
- Jan 14Presented and ordered printed 26104959DIntroduced
- Mar 4Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Latest