Virginia Senate Bill 142 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 27 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-05 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Appeal to circuit court; failure to appear. Provides that a person's failure to appear in circuit court in accordance with the condition of his bail, recognizance, or promise to appear constitutes a withdrawal of an appeal, provided that the person is notified in writing at the time he notes his appeal that his failure to appear in circuit court constitutes a withdrawal of the appeal. The bill also provides that within 60 days of entering an order affirming the judgment of a district court based on a person's failure to appear, a person who fails to appear may request the court to vacate its order if such failure to appear was not willful.

Circuit court; failure to appear in accordance with condition of bail, etc.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2018-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-05	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
2017-12-27	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-12-27	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103818D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	133	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	133.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	258	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB142
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB142+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0264+SB0142