VA HB389 | 2012 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 13 2012 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-22 - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on February 13 2012 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-22 - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be punished only as if guilty of first degree murder. This bill allows principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact to be charged as principals in the first degree in the cases of murder for hire, murder involving a continuing criminal enterprise, and terrorism. This bill allows, in all other cases of capital murder, a principal in the second degree to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he had the same intent to kill as the principal in the first degree. The bill allows an accessory before the fact to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he ordered or directed the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing.
Title
Criminal law; redefinition of triggerman rule, penalty.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2012-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A) (Y: 6 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [FAIL]
2012-02-14 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (72-Y 28-N) (Y: 74 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-10 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 5-N) (Y: 14 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-14 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (72-Y 28-N) (Y: 74 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-10 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 5-N) (Y: 14 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-02-22 | Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A) | |
| 2012-02-15 | Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice | |
| 2012-02-15 | Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed | |
| 2012-02-14 | House: VOTE: PASSAGE (72-Y 28-N) | |
| 2012-02-14 | House: Read third time and passed House (72-Y 28-N) | |
| 2012-02-13 | House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB389H1 | |
| 2012-02-13 | House: Committee substitute agreed to 12105179D-H1 | |
| 2012-02-13 | House: Read second time | |
| 2012-02-12 | House: Read first time | |
| 2012-02-10 | House: Incorporates HB954 | |
| 2012-02-10 | House: Committee substitute printed 12105179D-H1 | |
| 2012-02-10 | House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 5-N) | |
| 2012-02-06 | House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) | |
| 2012-01-13 | House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal | |
| 2012-01-10 | House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice | |
| 2012-01-10 | House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101763D |
Same As/Similar To
HB954 (Similar To) 2012-02-10 - House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice
