Virginia Senate Bill 1267 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - Senate: Left in Finance
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Contraband and unstamped cigarettes; penalties. Decreases from 3,000 packs to 500 packs the threshold possession amount of contraband cigarettes that triggers a mandatory jail time. Currently, if an offender is found guilty of possessing 3,000 or more packages of contraband cigarettes, the sentence of such person includes a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 90 days. The bill also changes the felony threshold amount from 3,000 unstamped packs to 500 packs, to mirror the levels set out in the definition for "contraband cigarettes" in the federal Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act.

Contraband and unstamped cigarettes; decreases threshold possession amount that triggers jail time.

Sen. Stephen Martin [R]

2011-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Fin. (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		Senate: Left in Finance
2011-01-26		Senate: Rereferred to Finance
2011-01-26		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
2011-01-19		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2011-01-18		Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
2011-01-18		Senate: Rereferred from Fin. (10-Y 0-N)
2011-01-12		Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
2011-01-12		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11103870D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	4212	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1017	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+SB1267
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB1267+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S05V0038+SB1267
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S03V0087+SB1267