2025 SESSION

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE

25104748D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2105

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Public Safety

on January 17, 2025)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Kent)

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 53.1-116.2:1, relating to regional correctional facilities; investigation of acts of violence; designated local law-enforcement agency.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 53.1-116.2:1 as follows:

§ 53.1-116.2:1. Jail superintendents to designate local law-enforcement agency to investigate acts of violence occurring within regional correctional facilities; memorandum of understanding.

A. The jail superintendent of any regional correctional facility shall promptly report to the primary local law-enforcement agency in the jurisdiction where such correctional facility is located any act of violence, as defined in § 19.2-297.1, that occurs within such correctional facility.

B. The jail superintendent shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with such primary local law-enforcement agency in the jurisdiction where such facility is located setting forth the procedures for the investigation of such acts of violence and the respective roles and responsibilities of the jail superintendent of such correctional facility and the local law-enforcement agency to which such report is made.