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SB201

Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program; established.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Danny Diggs (R)

Session:
2024 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program.

Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missing or endangered child as a child (i) who is 17 years of age or younger or is currently enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth, regardless of age; (ii) whose whereabouts are unknown; and (iii) whose disappearance is under suspicious circumstances or poses a credible threat as determined by law enforcement to the safety and health of the child and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police. The bill requires the Virginia State Police to develop, in consultation with representatives of local law-enforcement agencies, including representatives from the Virginia Sheriffs' Association and the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police, policies for the establishment of uniform standards for the creation of Codi Alert Programs throughout the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to HB 1388. (Less)
  • Bill History

  • 01/08/2024 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101781D
  • 01/08/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 01/10/2024 - Senate: Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
  • 01/15/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 01/15/2024 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 01/16/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 01/17/2024 - Senate: Read second time
  • 01/17/2024 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
  • 01/17/2024 - Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
  • 01/17/2024 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB201E
  • 01/17/2024 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 24101781D-E
  • 01/18/2024 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 01/18/2024 - Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 3-N)
  • 01/18/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 01/29/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB201E)
  • 02/13/2024 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/13/2024 - House: Read first time
  • 02/13/2024 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 02/16/2024 - House: Referred from Courts of Justice
  • 02/16/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
  • 02/23/2024 - House: Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N)
  • 02/27/2024 - House: Read second time
  • 02/28/2024 - House: Read third time
  • 02/28/2024 - House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
  • 02/28/2024 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
  • 03/04/2024 - Senate: Enrolled
  • 03/04/2024 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB201ER)
  • 03/04/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB201ER)
  • 03/04/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/07/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/11/2024 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
  • 03/11/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
  • 04/08/2024 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 667 (effective 7/1/24)
  • 04/08/2024 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667)