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The 2020 Virginia General Assembly session began on January 8, and will continue for 60 days. Here you can read the bills that are proposed, follow them as they’re voted on, and learn about the few that ultimately become law.
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Electric vehicles; DMME to determine feasibility of a rebate program.
Nanny State Of Hypocracy writes: So now I get to pay for someone's new electric vehicle, thanks! :(
Nanny State Of Hypocracy writes: So now I get to pay for someone's new electric vehicle, thanks! :(
Motor vehicle safety inspection program; abolishes the state program.
Nanny State Of Hypocracy writes: A lot of people are being ripped off for work that's unnecessary. Northrum gets an F for promising something he had no intentions of passing.
Nanny State Of Hypocracy writes: A lot of people are being ripped off for work that's unnecessary. Northrum gets an F for promising something he had no intentions of passing.
Motor vehicle safety inspection program; abolishes the state program.
Nanny State Of Hypocracy writes: A lot of people are being ripped off for work that's unnecessary.
Nanny State Of Hypocracy writes: A lot of people are being ripped off for work that's unnecessary.
Corrections, Department of; earned sentence credits.
James Tinsley writes: I support this bill
James Tinsley writes: I support this bill
Juvenile offenders; parole.
SM writes: Amber, I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin. She has done something evil to get 50 years at the age of 14. But to punish a child like that sounds evil too. Only in US this is possible. I don't judge the US laws. Maybe the sentencing has it reason. But the child like your cousin should has an opportunity to left the prison even much earlier than after 20 years. 10 years I think can be enough for someone who can show that the crime she did was only an awful mistake. Sorry for my English.
SM writes: Amber, I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin. She has done something evil to get 50 years at the age of 14. But to punish a child like that sounds evil too. Only in US this is possible. I don't judge the US laws. Maybe the sentencing has it reason. But the child like your cousin should has an opportunity to left the prison even much earlier than after 20 years. 10 years I think can be enough for someone who can show that the crime she did was only an awful mistake. Sorry for my English.
Corrections, Department of; earned sentence credits.
mary e phillips writes: I think this should be offered to all prisoners levels, 1,2, and 3. They are paying for their sins or crimes, a large amount of them are growing up in prison, the things they go through and see will scar them forever, when they come out the have that record and in most cases the big red letter F stamped on their foreheads forever. They cant and don't get jobs, housing and other help in spite of what the courts say or people wanted to be elected say. When they come out they are broken and most have no will to do better, but if they got more good time earned this would give them some hope and more willpower to do their best while behind bars, but the way it is now they have no hope, stay depressed and think no one cares. The way I see it is everyone deserves a second chance at life and to do better so they can hold their heads, they are paying for their crimes I feel they have lost so much already, when they come out the world as they know it has changed so much and it is hard for them to start over. If they have been there over two years with no charges or anything against them and they are not causing conflict or trouble that should mean a lot to everyone. This gives them something to work for and less apt. to re enter the system. Please pass bill HB1532 next year. There are so many families impacted by this.
mary e phillips writes: I think this should be offered to all prisoners levels, 1,2, and 3. They are paying for their sins or crimes, a large amount of them are growing up in prison, the things they go through and see will scar them forever, when they come out the have that record and in most cases the big red letter F stamped on their foreheads forever. They cant and don't get jobs, housing and other help in spite of what the courts say or people wanted to be elected say. When they come out they are broken and most have no will to do better, but if they got more good time earned this would give them some hope and more willpower to do their best while behind bars, but the way it is now they have no hope, stay depressed and think no one cares. The way I see it is everyone deserves a second chance at life and to do better so they can hold their heads, they are paying for their crimes I feel they have lost so much already, when they come out the world as they know it has changed so much and it is hard for them to start over. If they have been there over two years with no charges or anything against them and they are not causing conflict or trouble that should mean a lot to everyone. This gives them something to work for and less apt. to re enter the system. Please pass bill HB1532 next year. There are so many families impacted by this.