Virginia Senate Bill 803 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-03 - Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Attorneys for the Commonwealth; compensation and collection of fees. Prohibits the Compensation Board, when determining staffing and funding levels for offices of attorneys for the Commonwealth, from (i) considering the number of charges brought or the number of convictions obtained by such attorney for the Commonwealth; (ii) relying on standards devised or recommended by the attorney for the Commonwealth, law-enforcement agencies, or professional associations representing attorneys for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officers; or (iii) using measures that increase if an attorney for the Commonwealth (a) elects to prosecute a more serious charge, (b) elects to prosecute additional charges from a single arrest or criminal incident, (c) obtains convictions rather than dismissing charges or offering reduced charges, or (d) proceeds with prosecution rather than diversion. The bill also requires attorneys for the Commonwealth to pay all fees collected by them in consideration of the performance of official duties or functions into the state treasury, instead of only half of such fees. The bill requires the State Treasurer to pay to the treasuries of the respective counties and cities of the attorneys for the Commonwealth a proportion of half of all such fees collected by all attorneys for the Commonwealth, as determined by each county or city's crime rate, criminal incident rate, or arrest rate. Finally, the bill changes the fees collected by attorneys for the Commonwealth on trials of felony indictments from $40 on each count to $120 for each trial of a Class 1 or Class 2 felony indictment, or other felony that carries a possible penalty of life in prison, except robbery, and $40 for each trial on robbery and all other felony indictments regardless of the number of counts. The bill contains technical amendments.

Attorneys for the Commonwealth; compensation and collection of fees.

Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]

2020-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-03	Senate	Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-24	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
2020-01-20	Senate	Rereferred to Judiciary
2020-01-20	Senate	Rereferred from Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Local Government
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103175D

SB803 (Carry Over) 2020-02-03 - Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1626	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	1627.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	1627.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	1636.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB803
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB803+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S07V0016+SB0803
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0172+SB0803