Virginia Senate Bill 1272 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 1 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Disposition of the unrestorably incompetent defendant; capital murder charge; inpatient custody of the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that a court may commit a capital murder defendant to the inpatient custody of the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services provided that such defendant has remained unrestorably incompetent for a period of five years. The bill provides that after such defendant has been committed to the inpatient custody of the Commissioner, he may make interfacility transfers and treatment and management decisions regarding such defendant after obtaining prior approval of or review by the committing court. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.

Unrestorably incompetent defendant; disposition, capital murder charge, inpatient custody.

Sen. Monty Mason [D]

2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2021-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2021-02-05	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2021-02-05	House	Read first time
2021-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-02	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-01	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2021-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
2021-01-27	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
2021-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2021-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101328D

SB1272 (Carry Over) 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	169.3:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1272
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1272+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1272F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S03V0073+SB1272
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0184SB1272+SB1272
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0228SB1272+SB1272