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type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional facilities, local, regional, and community; reviews of deaths of inmates, report."
description: "State Board of Local and Regional Jails; deaths of inmates in local, regional, and community correctional facilities; reports. Consolidates reports made by the State Board of Local and Regional Jails related to the Board's reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility into one annual report to be published on the Board's website on or before July 1, 2025, and each July 1 thereafter and submitted to the Governor, the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the President pro tempore of the Senate. The annual report shall include (i) a summary of the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility conducted in the prior year, including any trends or similarities identified by such reviews; (ii) any recommendations for policy changes to reduce the number of inmate deaths; and (iii) any recommendations for changes to the policies and procedures for conducting reviews of the deaths of inmates to improve the operations, safety, and security of local, regional, or community correctional facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 770"
citation: "Virginia SB 770 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-19"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/494971cf-a51c-47f7-a94f-d9088f2b6507"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB770"
source_hash: "3d6994695ed7543ea3ea75b464b1a35a6f6219048b861fead524540a12d643f9"
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 SB 770 (2025) — Correctional facilities, local, regional, and community; reviews of deaths of inmates, report.
State Board of Local and Regional Jails; deaths of inmates in local, regional, and community correctional facilities; reports. Consolidates reports made by the State Board of Local and Regional Jails related to the Board's reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility into one annual report to be published on the Board's website on or before July 1, 2025, and each July 1 thereafter and submitted to the Governor, the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the President pro tempore of the Senate. The annual report shall include (i) a summary of the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility conducted in the prior year, including any trends or similarities identified by such reviews; (ii) any recommendations for policy changes to reduce the number of inmate deaths; and (iii) any recommendations for changes to the policies and procedures for conducting reviews of the deaths of inmates to improve the operations, safety, and security of local, regional, or community correctional facilities.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1011799.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072631.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1049672.PDF)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Ryan T. McDougle — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101361D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-12-19** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB770)
- **2025-01-20** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-20** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Assigned PS sub: Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-07** Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB770ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB770)
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-02-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 350 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/494971cf-a51c-47f7-a94f-d9088f2b6507`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).