2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

24102073D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1316

Offered January 10, 2024

Prefiled January 10, 2024

A BILL directing the Virginia State Crime Commission to assess the benefits of violence interrupters; impact of barrier crime statutes; report.

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Patron—Ward

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Referred to Committee on Rules

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Virginia State Crime Commission (the Crime Commission), in consultation with stakeholders, shall assess the benefits of violence interrupters and the impact of barrier crime statutes on the recruitment and retention rates of violence interrupters in the Commonwealth. The Crime Commission shall report its findings and any recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee for Courts of Justice by November 1, 2024.