Virginia House Bill 2616 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Juveniles; trial as adult. Increases from age 14 to age 16 the minimum age at which a juvenile must be tried as an adult in circuit court for murder or aggravated malicious wounding or for certain charges requiring notice of intent to try such juvenile as an adult by the attorney for the Commonwealth. In order to be tried as an adult in circuit court for charges that require notice of intent to proceed with trial as an adult by the attorney for the Commonwealth, the bill requires that (i) a report of the juvenile be prepared by probation services or other qualified agency and (ii) the attorney for the Commonwealth review such report prior to filing his notice of intent to proceed with a preliminary hearing for trial of such juvenile as an adult.

Juveniles; increases minimum age at which a juvenile must be tried as an adult.

Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Del. Marcus Simon [D]

2019-01-16 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2019-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (8-Y 0-N)
2019-01-15	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-09	House	Presented and ordered printed 19104339D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	269.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	269.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	277.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2616
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2616+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0801V0022+HB2616