Virginia Senate Bill 1348 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-01-23 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Death penalty; severe mental illness. Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness, which is defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. The bill establishes procedures for determining whether a defendant had a severe mental illness at the time of the offense and provides for the appointment of expert evaluators. When the defendant's severe mental illness is at issue, a determination will be made by the jury, or by the judge in a bench trial, as part of the sentencing proceeding, and the defendant bears the burden of proving his severe mental illness by a preponderance of the evidence.

Death penalty; severe mental illness.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2017-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) (Y: 9 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-23	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)
2017-01-23	Senate	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 17104587D-S1
2017-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102923D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	264.3:1.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	264.3:1.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	264.3:1.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	264.3:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	264.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1348
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1348+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1348S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03V0101+SB1348