Virginia Senate Bill 947 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 20 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-20 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Petition for appeal to Supreme Court; time period within which petition must be presented. Authorizes the Supreme Court of Virginia to grant a 30-day extension of the deadline for presentation of the petition for appeal in all cases for good cause shown. Under current law, the Court may grant an extension in criminal cases only. The bill also expresses time periods, currently expressed as months, in an equivalent number of days to reduce ambiguity. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council of Virginia.

Petition for appeal to Supreme Court; time period within which petition must be presented.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

2017-02-22 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-20 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-20		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652)
2017-03-20		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 652 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
2017-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2017-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB947ER)
2017-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2017-02-22	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2017-02-22	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2017-02-22	House	Read third time
2017-02-21	House	Read second time
2017-02-20	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
2017-02-13	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
2017-02-08	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2017-02-03	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-02-03	House	Read first time
2017-02-03	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-01-31	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-01-30	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2017-01-27	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2017-01-25	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2016-12-30	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-12-30	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101705D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	671	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB947
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB947+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB947ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0652+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03V0120+SB0947
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0173SB0947+SB0947
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0194SB0947+SB0947
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H0802V0096+SB0947
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H08V0319+SB0947
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2652+SB0947