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type: "Bill"
title: "Corrections, State Board of; renamed as State Board of Local and Regional Jails, powers and duties."
description: "State Board of Corrections; rename as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop and establish operating procedures to maintain prisoners residing in state correctional facilities and under the supervision of Department of Corrections probation and parole, including establishing regulations for human research, prescribing rules to govern home/electronic incarceration programs, and prescribing rules regarding the wages paid to persons participating in programs under the supervision of probation and parole. The bill requires the State Board of Corrections, upon determining that a local correctional facility is not in compliance with the minimum standards for construction, equipment, administration, or operation of local correctional facilities, to provide written notice of such determination to the local correctional facility. The bill also renames the State Board of Corrections as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), authorizes the Board to appoint and employ an executive director, and requires the Board to report annually to the General Assembly and the Governor on the results of inspections and audits of local, regional, or community correctional facilities and the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 622"
citation: "Virginia SB 622 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f465bf0-b1e7-44d8-aa56-88e76654823f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB622"
source_hash: "bbcd44ee0d8efd5675143545fa56fbe5653b3adc81ec5e2fce891a504111e678"
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 622 (2020) — Corrections, State Board of; renamed as State Board of Local and Regional Jails, powers and duties.
State Board of Corrections; rename as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop and establish operating procedures to maintain prisoners residing in state correctional facilities and under the supervision of Department of Corrections probation and parole, including establishing regulations for human research, prescribing rules to govern home/electronic incarceration programs, and prescribing rules regarding the wages paid to persons participating in programs under the supervision of probation and parole. The bill requires the State Board of Corrections, upon determining that a local correctional facility is not in compliance with the minimum standards for construction, equipment, administration, or operation of local correctional facilities, to provide written notice of such determination to the local correctional facility. The bill also renames the State Board of Corrections as the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), authorizes the Board to appoint and employ an executive director, and requires the Board to report annually to the General Assembly and the Governor on the results of inspections and audits of local, regional, or community correctional facilities and the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0759)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB622ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB622ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB622S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB622S1)
4. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB622S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB622)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (95-Y 0-N) — **940** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102832D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Committee substitute printed 20106525D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-24** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 20106525D-S1
- **2020-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB622S1
- **2020-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB622S1)
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-23** Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed House (95-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** VOTE: Passage (95-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-07** Enrolled
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
- **2020-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB622ER)
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f465bf0-b1e7-44d8-aa56-88e76654823f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).