Virginia Senate Bill 33 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on November 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-29 - Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Marijuana offenses; driver's license forfeiture. Eliminates the requirement that the Virginia Department of Transportation receive written assurance from the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation that Virginia will not lose any federal funds as a prerequisite to implementing revisions enacted in 2017 that except persons who have been placed on deferred disposition for simple possession of marijuana, subject to certain exceptions, from the existing provision that a person loses his driver's license for six months when convicted of or placed on deferred disposition for a drug offense. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Marijuana offenses; driver's license forfeiture.

Sen. William Stanley [R]

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2018-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-29	Senate	Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2017-11-20	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-11-20	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB33
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB33+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0192+SB0033