Virginia House Bill 266 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on December 30 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Interest on fines and costs in criminal cases and traffic infractions. Eliminates the accrual of interest on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction. The bill provides that any such fine or costs that have accrued interest prior to July 1, 2020, shall cease to accrue interest on July 1, 2020, and such accrued interest may be waived by any court. A person who owes fines and costs on which interest has accrued may move any court in which he owes fines and costs to waive the interest that accrued on such fines and costs and shall have such interest waived for any period of incarceration.

Criminal cases and traffic infractions; eliminates accrual of interest on fines and costs.

Del. Steve Heretick [D]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Nancy Guy [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]
Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

2020-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (17-Y 5-N) (Y: 17 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in Appropriations
2020-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2020-02-05	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (17-Y 5-N)
2020-01-23	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2019-12-30	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-12-30	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100931D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	353.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB266
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB266+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0204+HB0266