Virginia Senate Bill 610 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2008 - 100% progression
Action: 2008-04-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760)

Compensation of court-appointed counsel; juvenile offenders. Provides that court-appointed counsel who are appointed to defend a juvenile in district court for an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult may request a waiver on the compensation cap up to certain specified amounts depending on the charges being defended when the effort expended, the time reasonably necessary for the particular representation, the novelty and difficulty of the issues, or other circumstances warrant such a waiver. The maximum amounts of the waivers allowed are fixed at the level of the compensation cap for defending adults of the same crimes in circuit court.

Court-appointed counsel; compensation in district court for those defending juvenile offenders.

Sen. Kenneth Stolle [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-04-14		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760)
2008-03-27		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 760 (effective 7/1/08)
2008-03-11		Senate: Signed by President
2008-03-08		House: Signed by Speaker
2008-03-08		Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB610ER)
2008-03-08		Senate: Enrolled
2008-03-05		Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2008-03-03		House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2008-03-03		House: Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2008-03-03		House: Engrossed by House as amended
2008-03-03		House: Committee amendments agreed to
2008-03-03		House: Read third time
2008-02-29		House: Read second time
2008-02-27		House: Reported from Appropriations with amendments (23-Y 0-N)
2008-02-19		House: Assigned App. sub: General Government (Abbitt)
2008-02-15		House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2008-02-15		House: Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N)
2008-02-13		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-02-13		House: Read first time
2008-02-13		House: Placed on Calendar
2008-02-08		Senate: Communicated to House
2008-02-08		Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2008-02-08		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2008-02-08		Senate: Read second time and engrossed
2008-02-07		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2008-02-06		Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
2008-01-21		Senate: Rereferred to Finance
2008-01-21		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2008-01-09		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-01-09		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 089838328

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+SB610