The Public Safety Subcommittee advanced ten bills covering solitary confinement restrictions, juvenile justice reform, deaths-in-custody reporting, and first responder mental health training, with the most contested measures — HB 35 (solitary confinement) and HB 80 (deaths in custody reporting) — each passing 5 to 2 and proceeding to Appropriations or full committee with unresolved fiscal and enforcement questions.
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Co-patron Holly M. Seibold stated she struggles with HB 35 because 'it still requires 15 days locked up' and expressed her view that Virginia should not have any type of solitary practice, while patron Joshua G. Cole presented the bill as a meaningful restriction limiting solitary to a maximum of 15 days and argued the bill has already passed in 2024 and 2025 and should now be signed into law.
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“And I to make something clear immediately that I'm not pro democratic or pro Republican or pro right. But if my mama was here and I don't see her, she would have jumped up and disrupt this committee by saying that boy was a Democrat because I raised him one. I really want to say real quick, I'm not coming in here as an advocate of the lead for safer streets. I'm coming here today as a father. A father that was in”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Subcommittee 2 of Public Safety, formerly the public Safety subcommittee of public Safety, will come to order. If the clerk can please open the roll. Let's please make sure delegate Webbert is marked present. I'm pulling a sickle. Sorry. All right, we have a quorum. Thank you all so much for joining us. We've got several bills to go through this morning. We are going to start with chairman Willett. I know he's got a committee to get to. Chairman Willett, we have two bills from you. House Bill 454 will start and then 455. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much. I appreciate the opportunity to be with you this morning. And we'll go through these. Starting with 454. So this is related to addiction recovery programs. And what this bill does very simply is to repeal the Department of Criminal justice services requirement to have the model addiction recovery grant program for regional jails. What we're going to do instead is through a budget accompanying budget amendment which you're not reviewing today is, is have that program appropriate funds for that program to the jail mental health pilot program. And this will enable the sheriffs and the deputy…
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