Virginia Senate Bill 1396 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person who conspires or acts in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more retail mercantile establishments, with a value exceeding $5,000 aggregated over a 90-day period, with the intent to sell such retail property for monetary or other gain, and who takes or causes such retail property to be placed in the control of a retail property fence or other person and either (i) receives or possesses any retail property that has been obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments while knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe the property was unlawfully obtained or (ii) conspires or acts in concert with two or more other persons as an organizer, supervisor, financier, leader, or manager to engage for profit in a scheme or course of conduct to effectuate the transfer or sale of property obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments. The bill defines the terms retail mercantile establishment, retail property, and retail property fence. The bill also establishes the Organized Retail Crime Fund to be administered by the Attorney General solely for the purposes of awarding grants to attorneys for the Commonwealth and law-enforcement agencies to investigate, indict, and prosecute violations of organized retail theft and associated fraud and property crimes.

Organized retail theft; establishes as a crime, report, penalty.

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

2023-02-23 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (32-Y 8-N) (Y: 32 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-22 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 44-N) (Y: 52 N: 44 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2023-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 9-N) (Y: 10 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) (Y: 27 N: 13 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)
2023-03-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 358 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1396ER)
2023-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2023-02-23	Senate	Title replaced 23106694D-H1
2023-02-23	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (32-Y 8-N)
2023-02-22	House	VOTE: Passage (52-Y 44-N)
2023-02-22	House	Passed House with substitute (52-Y 44-N)
2023-02-22	House	Engrossed by House - floor substitute SB1396H2
2023-02-22	House	Substitute by Delegate Byron agreed to 23107160D-H2
2023-02-22	House	Committee on Courts of Justice substitute rejected 23106694D-H1
2023-02-22	House	Read third time
2023-02-22	House	Floor substitute printed 23107160D-H2 (Byron)
2023-02-21	House	Passed by for the day
2023-02-20	House	Passed by for the day
2023-02-17	House	Passed by for the day
2023-02-16	House	Passed by for the day
2023-02-15	House	Read second time
2023-02-13	House	Committee substitute printed 23106694D-H1
2023-02-13	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 9-N)
2023-02-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-02-10	House	Read first time
2023-02-10	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1396S1
2023-02-06	Senate	Floor Substitute by Senator Surovell ruled out of order
2023-02-06	Senate	Title replaced 23104438D-S1
2023-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to (21-Y 18-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2023-02-06	Senate	Floor substitute printed 23106361D-S2 (Surovell)
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-02	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2023-01-30	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2023-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23104438D-S1
2023-01-30	Senate	Incorporates SB1296 (DeSteph)
2023-01-30	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2023-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101935D

HB1885 (Same As) 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357)
HB1885 (Same As) 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	103.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	104.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	137	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	46.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	513	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	511.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1396
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1396+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1396S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1396S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1396H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1396H2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1396ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0358+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23104438D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FS1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FS1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FS2160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FS2122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FH1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FH2122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FH2160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1396FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0106+SB1396
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S05V0272+SB1396
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0243SB1396+SB1396
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0342SB1396+SB1396
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H08V0269+SB1396
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2183+SB1396
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0836SB1396+SB1396