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| Bill | Correctional facilities, local and regional; fees charged to inmates. | Local correctional facilities; fees. Eliminatescertain 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 releaseemployment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program,and telephone systems. The bill also caps certain fees charged toinmates within a local correctional facility, including that thecost of items within a correctional facility's store or commissaryand that the fee associated with electronic visitation and messagingsystems. The bill removes provisions that if an inmate is unableto pay in full certain fees, the inmate must enter into a deferredor installment payment agreement with the local correctional facility,or that such facility may enter into a contract for collection ofsuch fees with a private entity, a local governing body, or the countyor city treasurer. The bill also provides that, upon discharge froma local correctional facility, an inmate shall receive, in the formof a check, electronic transfer, or a debit or other account card,the balance of all accounts maintained by the facility for an inmate'suse. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 581 | Virginia SB 581 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 581 (2022) — Correctional facilities, local and regional; fees charged to inmates.
Local correctional facilities; fees. Eliminatescertain 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 releaseemployment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program,and telephone systems. The bill also caps certain fees charged toinmates within a local correctional facility, including that thecost of items within a correctional facility's store or commissaryand that the fee associated with electronic visitation and messagingsystems. The bill removes provisions that if an inmate is unableto pay in full certain fees, the inmate must enter into a deferredor installment payment agreement with the local correctional facility,or that such facility may enter into a contract for collection ofsuch fees with a private entity, a local governing body, or the countyor city treasurer. The bill also provides that, upon discharge froma local correctional facility, an inmate shall receive, in the formof a check, electronic transfer, or a debit or other account card,the balance of all accounts maintained by the facility for an inmate'suse.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0359 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105437D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22106263D-S2 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22106960D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Conference substitute printed 22107745D-S3 (committee substitute) — source
- SB581ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (7-Y 5-N 3-A) — 7–5 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 1-N) — 15–1 (pass) · upper
- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 0–39 (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) — 35–4 (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 3-N) — 37–3 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Joseph D. Morrissey — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101620D
introduction - 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2022-01-28 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-01-28 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (7-Y 5-N 3-A)
committee-passage - 2022-01-28 Committee substitute printed 22105437D-S1
substitution - 2022-01-28 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-01-28 Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (SB581)
- 2022-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB581S1)
- 2022-02-08 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-08 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 1-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-08 Committee substitute printed 22106263D-S2
substitution - 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB581S2)
- 2022-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-10 Committee substitute rejected 22105437D-S1
- 2022-02-10 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 22106263D-S2
- 2022-02-10 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB581S2
- 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-22 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Public Safety
referral-committee - 2022-02-22 Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2022-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-25 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-25 Committee substitute printed 22106960D-H1
substitution - 2022-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB581H1)
- 2022-03-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-03-02 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-02 Committee substitute agreed to 22106960D-H1
- 2022-03-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB581H1
- 2022-03-02 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-03-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-04 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 2022-03-07 House insisted on substitute
- 2022-03-07 House requested conference committee
- 2022-03-08 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-08 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
- 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 3-N)
- 2022-03-11 Amended by conference committee
- 2022-03-11 Conference substitute printed 22107745D-S3
- 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-11 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB581S3)
- 2022-03-21 Enrolled
- 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB581ER)
- 2022-03-21 Signed by President
- 2022-03-22 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 359 (effective 7/1/22)
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Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc8ddb97-e78f-426f-b48e-b4f070e2702f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).