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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls."
+description: "Electronic communication systems within statecorrectional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services.Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systemsand web-based or electronic communications systems free of chargeto any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving thecommunication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of onetelephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unitat each correctional facility and that a maximum number of telephonenumbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than20. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 801"
+citation: "Virginia HB 801 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-04-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bec7200-bb75-40d2-bf90-89b3064cc7c6"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB801"
+source_hash: "9bbb8ecca81106a57be27fa65f7fcf940092c940500111797284b62e6cdab2b6"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 801 (2024) — Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls.
+
+Electronic communication systems within statecorrectional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services.Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systemsand web-based or electronic communications systems free of chargeto any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving thecommunication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of onetelephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unitat each correctional facility and that a maximum number of telephonenumbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than20. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0455** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0455)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 24107325D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB801H1)
+3. **HB801ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB801ER)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101691D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB801)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 8-N) — **12–8** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N) — **4–3** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment (10-Y 5-N) — **10–5** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) — **4–2** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 37-N) — **62–37** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) — **13–9** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendment (30-Y 9-N) — **30–9** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N) — **55–41** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
+- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
+- Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
+- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101691D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-19** Assigned PS sub: Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N)
+- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB801)
+- **2024-01-26** Reported from Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-26** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-09** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N) `substitution`
+- **2024-02-09** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-09** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2024-02-09** Committee substitute printed 24107325D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 24107325D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB801H1 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB801H1)
+- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-23** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-27** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2024-02-27** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2024-02-27** Passed Senate with amendment (30-Y 9-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Senate amendment agreed to by House (63-Y 37-N) `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-02-29** VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 37-N)
+- **2024-03-06** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-06** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB801ER) `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB801ER)
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bec7200-bb75-40d2-bf90-89b3064cc7c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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