Virginia House Bill 1959 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 26 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Disposition of the unrestorably incompetent defendant; aggravated murder charge; sexually violent offense charge. Provides that if a defendant is ordered to undergo treatment to restore his competency to stand trial and the initial evaluator has found that the defendant has an ongoing and irreversible medical condition causing him to likely remain incompetent for the foreseeable future or that the defendant has been found to be unrestorably incompetent in the past two years, the initial evaluator shall send a report to the court and the court shall proceed with a competency determination.

Disposition of the unrestorably incompetent defendant; aggravated murder charge.

Del. Michael Mullin [D]

2023-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-02 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614)
2023-03-26		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 614 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1959ER)
2023-03-07	House	Enrolled
2023-02-22	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-22	Senate	Read third time
2023-02-21	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-20	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
2023-02-03	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-02-02	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2023-02-02	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2023-02-01	House	Read second time and engrossed
2023-01-31	House	Read first time
2023-01-27	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
2023-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2023-01-21	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2023-01-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100522D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	169.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1959
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1959+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1959ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0614+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1959F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1959FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0801V0132+HB1959
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H08V0077+HB1959
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1295+HB1959
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0293+HB1959
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0711HB1959+HB1959
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0790HB1959+HB1959