Bill Text: VA HB1799 | 2019 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Criminal cases and traffic infractions; eliminates accrual of interest on fines and costs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-05 - Left in Appropriations [HB1799 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-HB1799-Comm_Sub.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §19.2-353.5 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§19.2-353.5. Interest on fines and costs.
No interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a
criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction for a period of 40
days from the date of the final judgment imposing such fine or costs or during
any period the defendant is incarcerated. A person who owes fines and costs on
which interest has accrued during a period of incarceration may move any
court in which he owes fines and costs to waive the unpaid interest that
accrued on such fines and costs during such period of incarceration. Upon
due to indigency or for good cause shown. A person who owes fines and costs on
which interest has accrued during a period of incarceration shall have such
interest waived upon certification of the period of incarceration by the
superintendent, sheriff, warden, or other official in charge of a
correctional facility, or their designee, on a form developed by the
Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, such interest shall
be waived. In no event shall interest accrue in such cases during any
period in which a fine, costs, or both a fine and costs are being paid in
deferred or installment payments pursuant to an order of the court. Whenever
interest on any unpaid fine or costs accrues, it shall accrue at the judgment
rate of interest set forth in §6.2-302.