Virginia House Bill 1475 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction; mandatory minimum term of confinement; penalty. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member where it is alleged in the warrant, petition, information, or indictment on which a person is convicted that such person has been previously convicted of an offense that occurred within a period of 10 years of the instant offense against a family or household member of (i) assault and battery against a family or household member, (ii) malicious wounding or unlawful wounding, (iii) aggravated malicious wounding, (iv) malicious bodily injury by means of a substance, (v) strangulation, or (vi) an offense under the law of any other jurisdiction that has the same elements of any of the offenses, such person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 60 days.

Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction, mandatory minimum term.

Sen. John McGuire [R]

Del. Joseph McNamara [R]

2020-01-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-01-17	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
2020-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102853D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	57.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	120	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1475
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1475+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0017+HB1475