Virginia House Bill 797 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; underpaid work. Provides that in the program established by a court to provide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by earning credits for the performance of community service work, underpaid work, as such term is defined in the bill, is added as an option for earning such credits before, during, or after such person is incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility, provided that such underpaid work is authorized by the court. The bill makes offering such option for community service work or underpaid work mandatory. The bill provides that a person who is performing underpaid work shall be credited at the same rate as the community service work rate less any wages received for the underpaid work. Under current law, a court is required to establish a program for providing an option for community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs but offering such option was not mandatory.

Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; underpaid work.

Del. Marcia Price [D]

Del. Kenneth Plum [D]

2022-01-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2022-01-21	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2022-01-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2022-01-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2022-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101932D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	354	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB797
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB797+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0801V0008+HB0797