Summary: Parole Board; personal interviews of prisoners.Requires that at least two members of the Parole Board personally interview any prisoner eligible for parole who has served at least20 years of his sentence and has no record of institutional violationswithin the five years immediately preceding the Board's review.

Summary: DNA analysis upon conviction of certain misdemeanors. Adds misdemeanor violations of §§ 18.2-57 (assault and battery) and 18.2-119 (trespass) to the list of offenses for which an adult convicted of such offense must have a sample of his blood, saliva, or tissue taken for DNA analysis. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Crime Commission. This bill is identical to SB 565.

Summary: Creating a statewide e-filing system for civil casefilings. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by law, beginning July1, 2019, no petition, pleading, motion, order, or decree filed in a civil casein a circuit court, including any agreement of the parties or transcripts,shall contain the social security number of any party, or of any minor child ofany party, or any identifying financial information of any party. The billfurther provides that, where such information is required by law, suchinformation shall be contained in a separate addendum file by the attorney orparty in such civil case. The bill further requires each circuit clerk toestablish and operate a system for electronic filing. Current law provides thatany such clerk may establish and operate such a system. The bill provides that,in any civil case filed on or after July 1, 2019, clerks of the circuit courtsshall maintain all nonconfidential documents in electronic form and make suchdocuments available through secure remote access and searchable by name andcase number across all circuit courts that use the Office of the ExecutiveSecretary's electronic imaging system. The bill directs the Executive Secretaryof the Supreme Court to administer a paid subscription service that providesaccess to all electronic records maintained by the clerks who use suchelectronic imaging system for civil cases filed on or after July 1, 2019. Thebill specifies that such subscription shall be on an annual basis, with anannual fee to be established by the Judicial Council of Virginia. The billprovides that any sums collected pursuant to such subscription shall bedeposited into the state treasury to the credit of the Courts Technology Fund.The bill directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to update itsdocument entitled "Security Standard for Restricted Remote Access toDocuments on Court-Controlled Websites" consistent with the provisions ofthe bill by July 1, 2019. The requirement that the Virginia InformationTechnologies Agency update such document becomes effective in due course; theremaining provisions of the bill become effective on July 1, 2019.

Summary: Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; duties; public database for executive and legislative presentations. Requires the Secretary of Public Safety, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to establish a clearinghouse for all publicly available presentations and data sets related to substance abuse created by or for any state agency for which the Secretary of Public Safety or the Secretary of Health and Human Resources is responsible to the Governor and to make such information available to the public through the Internet.