Virginia 2022 Regular Session Status: In Committee

HB 673 — Correctional facilities; fees.

Last action — Stricken from docket by Public Safety (19-Y 2-N)

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed House of Delegates
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2022 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Local correctional facilities; fees. Eliminates certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, including a fee to defray the costs associated with an inmate's keep, travel and other expenses associated with an inmate's work release employment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program, and telephone systems. The bill also reduces certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, providing that the cost of items within a correctional facility's store or commissary shall not exceed 10 percent of the typical market rate for the same goods or services and that the fee associated with electronic visitation and messaging systems shall not exceed the actual costs of establishing and operating such systems. The bill removes provisions that if an inmate is unable to pay in full such fees, the inmate must enter into a deferred or installment payment agreement with the local correctional facility, or that such facility may enter into a contract for collection of such fees with a private entity, a local governing body, or the county or city treasurer. The bill also provides that, upon discharge from a local correctional facility, an inmate shall receive, in the form of a check, electronic transfer, or a debit or other account card, the balance of all accounts maintained by the facility for an inmate's use.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Stricken from docket by Public Safety (19-Y 2-N)

  2. Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (8-Y 0-N)

  3. Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2

  4. Referred to Committee on Public Safety

  5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100970D

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 147 not signed on · 2 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (147)

147 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Stricken from docket by Public Safety (19-Y 2-N)

Passed 19 Yea · 2 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 19201
Total 19201
% of votes cast 86%9%0%5%
How each member voted (22)
Member Party Vote
March, Marie E. — Yea
Angelia Williams Graves — Yea
Batten, Amanda E. — Yea
Bill Wiley — Yea
Bourne, Jeffrey M. — Yea
Campbell, Ronnie R. — Yea
Cordoza, A.C. — Yea
Davis, Glenn R. — Yea
Fariss, C. Matthew — Not Voting
Freitas, Nicholas J. — Yea
Jason S. Ballard — Yea
Jenkins, Clinton L. — Yea
Kory, Kaye — Yea
Marcus B. Simon — Nay
Michael J. Webert — Yea
Mundon King, Candi — Nay
Nadarius E. Clark — Yea
Patrick A. Hope — Yea
Plum, Kenneth R. — Yea
Sam Rasoul — Yea
Tony O. Wilt — Yea
Wren M. Williams — Yea

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Subjects

public-safety civil-rights labor
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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 673 do?
Local correctional facilities; fees. Eliminates certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, including a fee to defray the costs associated with an inmate's keep, travel and other expenses associated with an inmate's work release employment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program, and telephone systems. The bill also reduces certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, providing that the cost of items within a correctional facility's store or commissary shall not exceed 10 percent of the typical market rate for the same goods or services and that the fee associated with electronic visitation and messaging systems shall not exceed the actual costs of establishing and operating such systems. The bill removes provisions that if an inmate is unable to pay in full such fees, the inmate must enter into a deferred or installment payment agreement with the local correctional facility, or that such facility may enter into a contract for collection of such fees with a private entity, a local governing body, or the county or city treasurer. The bill also provides that, upon discharge from a local correctional facility, an inmate shall receive, in the form of a check, electronic transfer, or a debit or other account card, the balance of all accounts maintained by the facility for an inmate's use.
Who sponsors HB 673?
HB 673 is sponsored by Patrick A. Hope.
What is the current status of HB 673?
This bill died with 2022 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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