Virginia Senate Bill 805 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-28 - Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Robbery; penalty. Defines "robbery" and creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery by causing serious bodily injury is guilty of robbery in the first degree, which is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a maximum term of life. Any person who commits robbery by displaying a firearm in a threatening manner is guilty of robbery in the second degree, which is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a maximum term of 20 years. Any person who commits robbery by using physical force not resulting in serious bodily injury, or by displaying a deadly weapon other than a firearm in a threatening manner, is guilty of robbery in the third degree, which is punishable as a Class 5 felony. Any person who commits robbery by any other means is guilty of robbery in the fourth degree, which is punishable as a Class 6 felony. Under current law, any robbery is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for life or any term not less than five years.

Robbery; definition, penalty.

Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) (Y: 20 N: 20 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-28	House	Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2020-02-18	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-02-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-02-12	House	Read first time
2020-02-12	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-06	Senate	Chair votes Yes
2020-02-06	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N)
2020-02-06	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2020-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB805S1
2020-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107417D-S1
2020-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-03	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
2020-02-03	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20107417D-S1
2020-01-24	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103176D

SB805 (Carry Over) 2020-02-28 - Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	58	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB805
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB805+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB805S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0167+SB0805
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0333SB0805+SB0805
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0372SB0805+SB0805