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| Bill | Correctional facilities, state; visitation and search policies for visitors. | State correctional facilities; visitation. Sets visitation and search policies for visitors to state correctional facilities, including the circumstances under which visits may include or exclude personal contact. The bill prohibits strip searches and searches of any body cavity of any child under 18 years of age and provides that visitors will not be barred from future visits if they (i) stop a search prior to the discovery of contraband or (ii) refuse to be searched. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 1023 | Virginia SB 1023 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 1023 (2020) — Correctional facilities, state; visitation and search policies for visitors.
State correctional facilities; visitation. Sets visitation and search policies for visitors to state correctional facilities, including the circumstances under which visits may include or exclude personal contact. The bill prohibits strip searches and searches of any body cavity of any child under 18 years of age and provides that visitors will not be barred from future visits if they (i) stop a search prior to the discovery of contraband or (ii) refuse to be searched.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1170) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1023ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1023S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1023S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB1023H1) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB1023S2) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
- House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 35-N) — 2–35 (fail) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 4-N) — 90–4 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Mark J. Peake — primary (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-16 Presented and ordered printed 20104649D
introduction - 2020-01-16 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-01-17 Introduced bill reprinted 20104649D
- 2020-01-24 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-24 Committee substitute printed 20106625D-S1
substitution - 2020-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-01-28 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-01-28 Reading of substitute waived
- 2020-01-28 Committee substitute agreed to 20106625D-S1
- 2020-01-28 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1023S1
- 2020-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-03 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on Public Safety
referral-committee - 2020-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB1023S1)
- 2020-02-13 Assigned PS sub: Public Safety
referral-committee - 2020-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-02-21 Committee substitute printed 20108804D-H1
substitution - 2020-02-21 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB1023H1)
- 2020-02-25 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-26 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-26 Committee substitute agreed to 20108804D-H1
- 2020-02-26 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1023H1
- 2020-02-26 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-26 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-28 House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 35-N)
- 2020-03-02 House insisted on substitute
- 2020-03-02 House requested conference committee
- 2020-03-03 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-03 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
- 2020-03-05 Amended by conference committee
- 2020-03-05 Conference substitute printed 20109663D-S2
- 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB1023S2)
- 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (91-Y 4-N)
- 2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 4-N)
- 2020-03-18 Enrolled
- 2020-03-18 Signed by President
- 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 2020-03-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB1023ER)
- 2020-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1170 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdbf7930-02e6-40f1-a50a-1e7709ebc11c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).