Virginia Senate Bill 841 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 26 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Alcohol safety action programs. Directs the membership of a local independent policy board of an alcohol safety action program to be chosen in accordance with procedures approved and promulgated by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (VASAP) and specifies that such procedures shall provide that such board shall endeavor to select one criminal defense attorney who has specialized knowledge in representing persons charged with driving while intoxicated offenses and one local attorney for the Commonwealth to sit on such board. Alcohol safety action programs. Directs the membership of a local independent policy board of an alcohol safety action program to be chosen in accordance with procedures approved and promulgated by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (VASAP) and specifies that such procedures shall provide that such board shall endeavor to select one criminal defense attorney who has specialized knowledge in representing persons charged with driving while intoxicated offenses and one local attorney for the Commonwealth to sit on such board. The bill also provides that any court that has convicted a person of a reckless driving violation in which the defendant was initially charged with a driving while intoxicated violation shall have continuing jurisdiction over such person during any period of license revocation related to that conviction for the limited purposes of (i) referring such person to a certified alcohol safety action program; (ii) providing for a restricted driver's license permit for such person; and (iii) imposing terms, conditions, and limitations for actions related to such person's participation in a certified alcohol safety action program and use of the restricted driver's license permit. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Commission on VASAP.

Alcohol safety action programs; local independent policy board to select attorneys for board.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

2023-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N) (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2023-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-20 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) (Y: 0 N: 40 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2023-02-16 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-13 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)
2023-03-26		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 562 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB841ER)
2023-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2023-02-24	House	VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N)
2023-02-24	House	Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
2023-02-24	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-24	Senate	Conference substitute printed 23107524D-S1
2023-02-24		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2023-02-23	House	Delegates: Scott, D.L., Adams, L.R., Williams
2023-02-23	House	Conferees appointed by House
2023-02-22	Senate	Senators: Surovell, Boysko, Reeves
2023-02-22	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2023-02-22	Senate	Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	House	House requested conference committee
2023-02-21	House	House insisted on substitute
2023-02-20	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
2023-02-16	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-16	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-16	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB841H1
2023-02-16	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23106682D-H1
2023-02-16	House	Read third time
2023-02-15	House	Read second time
2023-02-13	House	Committee substitute printed 23106682D-H1
2023-02-13	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
2023-02-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-02-09	House	Read first time
2023-02-09	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Printed as engrossed 23103601D-E
2023-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB841E
2023-02-06	Senate	Committee amendments agreed to
2023-02-06	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2023-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-01	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with amendments (14-Y 0-N)
2023-01-13	Senate	Rereferred to Judiciary
2023-01-13	Senate	Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
2022-12-28	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
2022-12-28	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103601D

HB2370 (Same As) 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	271.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	392	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB841
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB841+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB841E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB841H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB841S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB841ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0562+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105967A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB841AS
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB841AC
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB841F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB841FE122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB841FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB841FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S09V0003+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0149+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0241SB0841+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0276SB0841+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0277SB0841+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H08V0258+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1893+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0580SB0841+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0777SB0841+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0966SB0841+SB0841
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2364+SB0841