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HB 1482 — Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings, exceptions, penalty.

VA 20261 session

Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings; exceptions; penalty. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer, defined in the bill, from wearing a facial covering, defined in the bill, while engaged in the performance of his official duties. The bill sets out several exceptions to such prohibition, including protective facial coverings to protect against disease, infection, and exposure to toxic substances and facial coverings worn by any law-enforcement officer assigned to a special weapons and tactics team while engaged in the performance of his official duties with such team. The bill subjects the law-enforcement officer to disciplinary action, including dismissal, demotion, suspension, transfer, or decertification, and creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any law-enforcement officer who wears a facial covering in violation of the provisions of the bill unless the law-enforcement agency that employs such law-enforcement officer has adopted and established a written policy for and restrictions on the use of facial coverings. The bill also directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop a model policy for and restrictions on the use of facial coverings by law-enforcement officers. This bill is identical to SB 352.

Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter

Sponsors (26)
Action timeline (65)
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  4. · house · H8500 —
  5. · house · H8120 —
  6. · house · H1517 —
  7. · house · H8122 —
  8. · house · H1507 —
  9. · house · H4110 —
  10. · house · H4120 —
  11. · house · H4212 —
  12. · house · H4602 —
  13. · house · H8500 —
  14. · house · H5000 —
  15. · senate · S4140 —
  16. · senate · S1301 —
  17. · senate · S8122 —
  18. · senate · S1308 —
  19. · senate · S4640 —
  20. · house · H8500 —
  21. · senate · S0505 —
  22. · senate · S4150 —
  23. · senate · S4145 —
  24. · senate · S4160 —
  25. · senate · S4150 —
  26. · senate · S4160 —
  27. · senate · S4160 —
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  30. · senate · S4160 —
  31. · senate · S4130 —
  32. · senate · S4130 —
  33. · senate · S4130 —
  34. · senate · S4410 —
  35. · senate · S4601 —
  36. · senate · S5022 —
  37. · house · H5432 —
  38. · senate · S5520 —
  39. · senate · S6010 —
  40. · house · H6012 —
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  43. · senate · S6011 —
  44. · senate · S6013 —
  45. · senate · S5520 —
  46. · C6038 —
  47. · senate · S6015 —
  48. · house · H6015 —
  49. · house · H8500 —
  50. · house · H5610 —
  51. · house · H5601 —
  52. · senate · S5620 —
  53. · house · H7010 —
  54. · G7010 —
  55. · house · H5620 —
  56. · house · H7010 —
  57. · G7010 —
  58. · house · H8500 —
  59. · G7210 —
  60. · house · H4160 —
  61. · house · H4160 —
  62. · house · H7000 —
  63. · G7010 —
  64. · G7050 —
  65. · G9998 —
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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.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Charlie Schmidt (D, state_lower VA)sponsor0—5
2Adele Y. McClure (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
3Alfonso H. Lopez (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
4Amy J. Laufer (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
5Briana D. Sewell (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
6Dan I. Helmer (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
7Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
8Holly M. Seibold (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
9Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
10Jessica L. Anderson (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
11Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
12Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
13Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
14Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
15Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
16Lindsey Dougherty (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
17Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
18Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
19Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
20Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
21Patrick A. Hope (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
22Phil M. Hernandez (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
23Rae Cousins (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
24Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
25Sam Rasoul (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
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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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