HB 126 — Local, regional, and community correctional facilities; access to counsel for inmates.

VA 20261 session

Local, regional, and community correctional facilities; access to counsel for inmates. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to establish additional standards no later than January 1, 2027, to ensure access to legal counsel for inmates held in any local, regional, or community correctional facility and enumerates the standards that the Board shall include in such additional standards.

Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter

Sponsors (8)

Katrina Callsen (D, VA) — sponsor
Lindsey Dougherty (D, VA) — cosponsor
Mark C. Downey (D, VA) — cosponsor
Holly M. Seibold (D, VA) — cosponsor
Rae Cousins (D, VA) — cosponsor
Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor

Action timeline (40)

2026-01-02 · house · H4020 —
2026-01-02 · house · H1501 —
2026-01-16 · house · H1512 —
2026-01-29 · house · H1516 —
2026-01-30 · house · H8122 —
2026-01-30 · house · H1507 —
2026-01-30 · house · H8122 —
2026-02-03 · house · H4110 —
2026-02-04 · house · H4120 —
2026-02-04 · house · H4212 —
2026-02-04 · house · H4602 —
2026-02-05 · house · H5000 —
2026-02-05 · house · H8500 —
2026-02-06 · senate · S4140 —
2026-02-06 · senate · S0901 —
2026-02-20 · senate · S0914 —
2026-02-25 · senate · S1308 —
2026-02-25 · senate · S8122 —
2026-02-27 · senate · S4150 —
2026-02-27 · senate · S4145 —
2026-02-27 · senate · S4160 —
2026-02-27 · senate · S4160 —
2026-02-27 · senate · S4640 —
2026-03-02 · senate · S4130 —
2026-03-02 · senate · S4130 —
2026-03-02 · senate · S4410 —
2026-03-02 · senate · S4601 —
2026-03-02 · senate · S5022 —
2026-03-03 · house · H8500 —
2026-03-04 · house · H5432 —
2026-03-11 · house · H5610 —
2026-03-11 · house · H5601 —
2026-03-11 · house · H8500 —
2026-03-11 · senate · S5620 —
2026-03-12 · house · H5620 —
2026-03-14 · house · H7010 —
2026-03-14 · G7010 —
2026-04-06 · G7050 —
2026-04-06 · G7050 —
2026-04-06 · G9998 —

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Who matters on this bill

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA)	sponsor	—	5
2	Holly M. Seibold (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1
4	Lindsey Dougherty (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1
5	Mark C. Downey (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1
6	Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1
7	Rae Cousins (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1
8	Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, state_lower VA)	cosponsor	—	1

Stance (positions taken)

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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