Summary: Virginia Opioid Use Reduction and Jail-BasedSubstance Use Disorder Treatment and Transition Fund; established.Establishes the Virginia Opioid Use Reduction and Jail-Based SubstanceUse Disorder Treatment and Transition Fund to be administered bythe Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of fundingand supporting the planning and implementation of locally administeredjail-based addiction recovery and substance use disorder treatmentand transition programs in local and regional jails.

Summary: Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requiresevery law-enforcement agency and correctional facility to reportto the Department of Criminal Justice Services certain informationregarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest orin the process of being arrested, en route to be incarcerated, incarcerated,or otherwise in the custody of such law-enforcement agency or correctionalfacility. The bill provides that any law-enforcement agency or correctionalfacility that fails to comply may, at the discretion of the Department,be declared ineligible for state grants or funds. The bill also requires the Department to analyze the submitted data to (i) determinethe means by which such information can be used to reduce the numberof such deaths and (ii) examine the relationship, if any, betweenthe number of such deaths and the actions of management of such law-enforcementagencies and correctional facilities. Finally, the bill requires the Director of the Department to annually report the findings and recommendationsresulting from the analysis and interpretation of the data to theGovernor, the General Assembly, and the Attorney General beginningon or before July 1, 2024, and each July 1 thereafter.

Summary: Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Departmentof Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in thecustody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performedby the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner,or a pathologist with whom the State Health Commissioner has enteredinto an agreement.

Summary: Department of Corrections; operations and costs. Establishes a formula for determining the estimated appropriationsin a fiscal impact statement of any bill that adds a new felony forwhich imprisonment or commitment is authorized. The bill alsoprovides that the cost of goods and services sold in stores in statecorrectional facilities shall not exceed 10 percent of the cost ofthe typical market rate for such goods and services in major retailstores that are not affiliated with any correctional facility andthat the Department shall not receive any commissions or markups fromthe goods and services sold.

Summary: Police powers of fire marshals; training requirements.Provides that a local fire marshal or assistant shall not exerciseany police powers until such person has satisfactorily completeda basic law-enforcement course for fire marshals with police powersand maintains satisfactory participation in in-service and advancedcourses and programs. The bill also provides that current or priorcertification as a law-enforcement officer may satisfy the policepowers training requirements.

Summary: Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designatedhighway segments. Authorizes any locality to authorize, by ordinance,its local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speedmonitoring devices in certain locations named in the ordinance, providedthat (i) the highway has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per houror greater; (ii) the ordinance identifies the locality-designatedspeeding offense to be enforced by the photo speed monitoring device;(iii) speeding, crash, or fatality data supports the need for strongerenforcement against speeding; and (iv) in counties and towns whose roads are subject to the control and jurisdiction of the Departmentof Transportation, the locality-designated highway segment is inthe secondary state highway system. The bill directs the localityto also identify the speeding violations that may be enforced byphoto speed monitoring device. Current law authorizes the use ofphoto speed monitoring devices in highway work zones and school crossingzones.

Summary: Department of Criminal Justice Services; powersand duties; training for law-enforcement personnel. Requiresthe Department of Criminal Justice Services, under the direction ofthe Board, to establish training standards and publish a model policyfor the identification of, communication with, and facilitation ofthe safe return of individuals diagnosed with dementia by law-enforcementpersonnel. Under current law, such training standards and model policiesare focus solely on individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Summary: Mandatory reporting of all offenders releasedfrom a local correctional facility or state correctional facilitybefore the completion of the offender's sentence. Requires theDepartment of Corrections and all local correctional facilities toprovide the Virginia State Crime Commission with the name, last knownaddress, criminal history information, length of sentence incarcerated,reason for early release, and remaining time on such length of sentencefor each offender in the custody of the Department or such local correctional facility. The bill requires the Commission to publishthe names of such offenders along with the reason for early release on its website and provide an annual report by November 15 to theGeneral Assembly concerning the release of such offenders and anyfuture criminal charges and convictions for such offenders.

Summary: Firefighters; training; electric vehicle fires. Provides that the Executive Director of the Department of Fire Programsshall have the power to develop a training program on the risks offires in electric vehicles and how to safely and effectively managesuch fires to be completed by all firefighters, including volunteerfirefighters, and requires the Executive Director to make such trainingprogram available by July 1, 2024. The bill also requires all firefighters,including volunteer firefighters, to complete such training program.The provisions of the bill requiring all firefighters to completesuch training program have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024,and the bill requires every person engaged in firefighting activitieson July 1, 2024, to complete such training program by December 1,2025.

Summary: Correctional facilities; use of solitary confinementand restrictive housing. Prohibits the use of solitary confinement,defined in the bill, subject to certain exceptions, and restrictive housing, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities. Thebill provides that an incarcerated person may be placed in restorativehousing, defined in the bill. The bill also requires the Directorof the Department of Corrections to have a defined policy and procedurefor the process of transitioning an incarcerated person placed inrestorative housing out of such housing and back to the general populationof the facility.

Summary: Virginia Public Safety Communications InfrastructureFund and Program; established. Establishes the Virginia PublicSafety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program, to be administeredby the Department of Emergency Management and financially managedby the Virginia Resources Authority, for the purpose of making loansand awarding grants to local governments for the purpose of assistingwith improvement projects relating to public safety radio and communicationsinfrastructure.