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Subcommittee reports, amends, or lays on table a slate of bills including cannabis tax, prison temperature standards and solitary confinement limits
Summary
The subcommittee acted on a range of bills: HB 24-85 (adult retail cannabis market) and HB 18-94 (prison temperature standards) were reported, HB 19-82 was laid on the table, and other bills on veterans services, training and jail oversight were reported or amended with recorded roll-call tallies.
A House subcommittee of the Virginia General Assembly considered and recorded outcomes on multiple bills affecting public safety, corrections, veterans services, public health and retail cannabis.
Key outcomes included: HB 24-85, a bill to establish an adult retail cannabis market administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority and to levy an 8 percent sales tax on cannabis products, reported out of the subcommittee by a 5-3 vote. HB 18-94, a substitute bill addressing extreme temperatures in Virginia prison cells and requiring interior cell temperature testing and improved monitoring, was reported with substitute language by a 5-3 roll call. HB 19-82 was laid on the table by a recorded vote of 8-0 after the sponsor moved to do so to continue negotiations for next year.
Other committee actions recorded in the transcript (motions, amendments where noted, and roll-call tallies) include: HB 17-36 to establish the Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention (reported 4-3); HB 17-37 to codify the Virginia Veterans Network (reported 8-0); HB 17-38 amended to clarify cause and manner of death reporting and autopsy requests for a veterans suicide prevention program (reported as amended 8-0); HB 19-63 building on the Virginia military community infrastructure grant program (reported 8-0); HB 20-33 requiring training on recognizing and reporting suspected human trafficking for ABC-licensed servers and clerks (reported 8-0); HB 20-39 directing DCJS to establish a model policy for law-enforcement use of encrypted telecommunications (reported 8-0); HB 24-67 expanding local regional jail board authority to match DOC ombudsman authority (reported 5-3); HB 18-69 closing a dating-partner loophole in firearm-purchase prohibitions (reported 5-3); HB 25-94 establishing best practices for security at houses of worship (reported 7-1); and HB 26-47 restricting the use of isolated confinement with standards for out-of-cell time and programming (reported 5-3).
Where the transcript recorded sponsor remarks or amendments, those details are summarized above. Many bills were moved, seconded and reported with roll-call tallies announced by the clerk; the transcript does not provide a full name-by-name vote record for each roll call in the excerpt provided.
