Virginia Senate Bill 1290 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 26 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Venue in criminal cases. Provides that if it cannot readily be determined where a crime was committed in the Commonwealth, venue for the prosecution of the crime may be had in any county or city (i) in which the defendant resides, (ii) in which the defendant is apprehended if he is a nonresident or (iii) in which any related offense was committed if he is a nonresident and is not apprehended in the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that venue for offenses related to a homicide offense may be had in the same county or city as venue for the homicide offense. The bill further provides that venue for homicide offenses may be had in any county or city where any part of the victim's body is found.

Criminal cases; venue for prosecution.

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

2015-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-17 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N) (Y: 0 N: 38 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2015-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-11 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637)
2015-03-26		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 637 (effective 7/1/15)
2015-03-10		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
2015-03-10	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/10/15
2015-03-07	Senate	Signed by President
2015-03-06	House	Signed by Speaker
2015-03-06	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1290ER)
2015-03-06	Senate	Enrolled
2015-02-26	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N)
2015-02-26	House	Conference report agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
2015-02-25	House	Passed by for the day
2015-02-25	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-25	Senate	Conference substitute printed 15105467D-S2
2015-02-25		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2015-02-23	House	Delegates: Bell, Robert B., Morris, Herring
2015-02-23	House	Conferees appointed by House
2015-02-20	Senate	Senators: Stuart, McDougle, McEachin
2015-02-20	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2015-02-20	Senate	Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-18	House	House requested conference committee
2015-02-18	House	House insisted on substitute
2015-02-17	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N)
2015-02-13	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
2015-02-13	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
2015-02-13	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1290H1
2015-02-13	House	Committee substitute agreed to 15105023D-H1
2015-02-13	House	Read third time
2015-02-12	House	Read second time
2015-02-11	House	Committee substitute printed 15105023D-H1
2015-02-11	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
2015-02-11	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2015-02-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-02-11	House	Read first time
2015-02-11	House	Placed on Calendar
2015-02-09	Senate	Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-09	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-09	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1290S1
2015-02-09	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 15104791D-S1
2015-02-09	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-02-09	Senate	Read second time
2015-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute printed 15104791D-S1
2015-02-04	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
2015-01-14	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-14	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102303D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	244	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	247	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1290
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1290+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1290S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1290H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1290S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1290ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0637+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S03V0157+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0310SB1290+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0343SB1290+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0344SB1290+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H08V0305+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+HV2299+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0521SB1290+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0665SB1290+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0921SB1290+SB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+HV2856+SB1290