Virginia Senate Bill 125 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 30 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-01-20 - Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Establishes a procedure to retroactively modify a mandatory life sentence for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile. The bill provides for an individualized assessment and allows the punishment to be reduced to a Class 2 felony (20 years to life). This bill is in response to Miller v. Alabama (567 U.S.___, 2012), where the United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without the possibility of parole for juvenile homicide offenders.

Juvenile offenders; sentence modification.

Sen. Dave Marsden [D]

2014-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-20	Senate	Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2013-12-30	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2013-12-30	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14100980D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	272	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB125
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB125+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S03V0054+SB0125