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HB1392Introduced in the House of Delegates

Correctional facilities, local and regional, and courthouse security; powers & duties for operation.

Vetoed

Introduced by Karen Keys-Gamarra, District 7

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Powers and duties for operation of local and regional correctional facilities and courthouse security; attorney access to courthouses and communication and visitation with incarcerated clients; penalty. Provides that if a sheriff allows courthouse employees or law-enforcement officers to bypass any security screening required to enter a courthouse, such sheriff shall also exempt from the security screening any attorney who displays a valid Virginia State Bar-issued bar card and a government-issued identification. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any attorney who has had his license to practice law in the Commonwealth suspended or revoked and who displays a Virginia State Bar-issued bar card in an effort to be exempt from the security screening. The bill also requires any telephonic, electronic, or web-based communication system for prisoners that is offered by a sheriff or jail superintendent who operates a local or regional correctional facility to include a confidential means for a prisoner to communicate with his attorney at regular and reasonable times.

Where it stands

Governor's Veto Received by House

May 19, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

4 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

5 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Senate substitute with amendments agreed to by House (84-Y 13-N 1-A) · March 11, 2026

84

Yes

13

No

2

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each delegate voted

DelegateDistrictVote
Patrick Hope1Yes
Adele McClure2Yes
Alfonso Lopez3Yes
Charniele Herring4Yes
Kirk McPike5Yes
Richard Sullivan6Yes
Karen Keys-Gamarra7Yes
Irene Shin8Yes
Karrie Delaney9Yes
Dan Helmer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Presented and ordered printed 26105053D

  2. Referred to Committee on Public Safety

  3. Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2

  4. House subcommittee offered

  5. Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 2-N)

  6. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)

  7. Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N)

  8. Read first time

  9. Read second time

  10. committee amendments agreed to

  11. Engrossed by House as amended

  12. Read third time and passed House (83-Y 14-N 0-A)

  13. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)

  14. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

  15. Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

  16. Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services to Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)

  17. Senate committee offered

  18. Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N 1-A)

  19. Committee substitute printed 26108386D-S1

  20. Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (13-Y 2-N)

  21. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)

  22. Rules suspended

  23. Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)

  24. Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  25. Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  26. Passed by for the day

  27. Read third time

  28. Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to

  29. Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to

  30. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute as amended

  31. Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (34-Y 6-N 0-A)

  32. Senate Substitute with amendments agreed to by House (84-Y 13-N 1-A)

  33. Enrolled

  34. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1392ER)

  35. Signed by President

  36. Signed by Speaker

  37. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026

  38. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  39. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1392)

  40. Governor's recommendation received by House

  41. Passed by for the day

  42. Passed by for the day

  43. Communicated to Governor

  44. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 23, 2026

  45. Vetoed by Governor

  46. Governor's Veto Received by House

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