SR1:

Public defender offices; feasibility, expense, and implementation of statewide coverage, report.

Bill Summary:

Feasibility, expense, and implementation
of statewide coverage of public defender offices; study. Directs
the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission (the Commission) to establish
a work group to study the feasibility, cost, and implementation of
statewide coverage of public defender offices. The bill directs the
Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the chairmen
of the Virginia State Crime Commission, the House Committee for Courts
of Justice, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee
on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations
by November 1, 2022.