| VA | SB1437 | Engross | Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completed after the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor offense or an administrative violation. The bill provides that an accused shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1316 | Enroll | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2038 | Enroll | Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; limitations. Limits the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as a result of a revocation hearing for a probation violation. The bill provides that if the court finds the basis of a viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1105 | Engross | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. Provides that a person who was convicted of a felony offense, or who was adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would have been a felony offense if committed by an adult, may petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2086 | Enroll | Child care providers; background checks; portability. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child welfare agencies from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background check within the previous fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1475 | Pass | Execution of search warrants. Provides that a search warrant for the search of any place of abode shall be executed by initial entry of the abode only in the daytime hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. unless (i) a judge or a magistrate, if a judge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 34 (effective 3/1/21) |
| VA | HB2331 | Engross | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses. Eliminates mandatory minimum sentences of confinement for certain crimes. The bill also provides a petition process for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| VA | SB1443 | Engross | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses. Eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confinement from the Code of Virginia. The bill directs the Secretary of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| VA | HB2133 | Enroll | Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of commercial sex trafficking. Establishes a procedure for victims of sex trafficking to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and court records expunged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1992 | Enroll | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery of a family or household member, as defined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1306 | Engross | Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months for an assault and battery committed against a judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, person directly involved in the care, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2047 | Engross | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert testimony, if suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (26-Y 13-N) |
| VA | SB1315 | Engross | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence offered by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (27-Y 12-N) |
| VA | SB1261 | Engross | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
VOTE: Agreed To (54-Y 42-N) |
| VA | HB2004 | Engross | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, relating to a criminal investigation or proceeding that is not ongoing, also def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
VOTE: Agreed To (55-Y 44-N) |
| VA | SB1138 | Engross | Sexually transmitted infections; infected sexual battery. Provides that any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and engages in sexual behavior that poses a substantial risk of transmission to another person according to curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (23-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB2312 | Engross | Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of marijuana, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and provides for an automatic expungement process for those convicted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB1406 | Engross | Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of marijuana, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and provides for an automatic expungement process for those convicted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB1165 | Enroll | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. The bill provides that no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after its effective date for any violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2263 | Enroll | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. The bill provides that no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after its effective date for any violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1242 | Enroll | Personal appearance by two-way electronic video and audio communication; entry of plea, nolle prosequi, or dismissal; revocation proceedings. Provides that with the consent of the court and all parties, an appearance in a court may be made by two-way...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021 |
| VA | HB1806 | Enroll | Suspension or modification of sentence; transfer to the Department of Corrections. Provides that if a person has been sentenced for a felony to the Department of Corrections (the Department), the court that heard the case, if it appears compatible wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021 |
| VA | SB1266 | Engross | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebuttable presumptions against being admitted to bail. Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebutta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
House amendments agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB1442 | Engross | Public defender offices; County of Chesterfield. Establishes a public defender office for the County of Chesterfield. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. Public defender offices; County of Chesterfield...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
House amendment agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1867 | Enroll | Compensating victims of crime; reporting requirement; sexual abuse. Provides that the requirement that the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission find that police records show the crime was promptly reported no more than 120 hours after it occurre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2110 | Enroll | Pretrial data collection. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to collect and disseminate, on an annual basis, statewide and locality-level data related to adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by confinement in jail or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2258 | Enroll | Substantial Risk Order Registry; maintenance and access. Authorizes the Department of State Police to release Substantial Risk Order Registry information upon request to institutions of higher education and other research organizations or institution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1391 | Enroll | Pretrial data collection. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to collect and disseminate, on an annual basis, statewide and locality-level data related to adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by confinement in jail or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2113 | Engross | Automatic expungement of criminal records; penalties. Establishes a process for the automatic expungement, defined in the bill, of criminal records for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that have been nolle p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
VOTE: Adoption (59-Y 39-N) |
| VA | HB1895 | Enroll | Fines and costs; accrual of interest; deferral or installment payment agreements. Provides that no interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction (i) for a period of 180 days followin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1339 | Engross | Expungement and sealing of police and court records; Expungement Fee Fund created; protection of public record information; penalties. Establishes a process for the sealing of police and court records, defined in the bill, of criminal records for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Title replaced 21200355D-H1 |
| VA | SB1431 | Enroll | Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report. Provides that in cases where a defendant was previously determined to be unrestorably incompetent in the past two years, a competency report may recommend that the court find the defendant unrest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2169 | Enroll | Solicitation of prostitution; reorganization. Reorganizes the statute penalizing prostitution into two distinct sections. The penalties for all offenses remain unchanged. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2233 | Enroll | Orders of restitution; enforcement. Provides that an order of restitution shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth, or a locality if applicable, on behalf of a victim, unless the victim named in the order of restitution requests in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1272 | Enroll | Disposition of the unrestorably incompetent defendant; capital murder charge; inpatient custody of the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that a court may commit a capital murder defendant to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1426 | Enroll | Orders of restitution; enforcement. Provides that an order of restitution shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth, or a locality if applicable, on behalf of a victim, unless the victim named in the order of restitution requests in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1122 | Enroll | Habitual offenders; repeal. Repeals the remaining provisions of the Habitual Offender Act. The bill also requires that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles reinstate a person's privilege to drive a motor vehicle that was suspended or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2092 | Enroll | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; background checks; persons providing contractual services. Requires background checks for contract staff providing direct care services for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1105 | Engross
Sine Die | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. Provides that a person who was convicted of a felony offense, or who was adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would have been a felony offense if committed by an adult, may petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1122 | Engross
Sine Die | Habitual offenders; repeal. Repeals the remaining provisions of the Habitual Offender Act. The bill also requires that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles reinstate a person's privilege to drive a motor vehicle that was suspended or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1138 | Engross
Sine Die | Sexually transmitted infections; infected sexual battery. Provides that any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and engages in sexual behavior that poses a substantial risk of transmission to another person according to curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1165 | Engross
Sine Die | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. The bill provides that no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after its effective date for any violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1266 | Engross
Sine Die | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebuttable presumptions against being admitted to bail. Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebutta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1431 | Engross
Sine Die | Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report. Provides that in cases where a defendant was previously determined to be unrestorably incompetent in the past two years, a competency report may recommend that the court find the defendant unrest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1437 | Engross
Sine Die | Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completed after the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor offense or an administrative violation. The bill provides that an accused shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Public defender offices; County of Chesterfield. Establishes a public defender office for the County of Chesterfield. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. Public defender offices; County of Chesterfield...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months for an assault and battery committed against a judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, person directly involved in the care, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1272 | Engross
Sine Die | Disposition of the unrestorably incompetent defendant; capital murder charge; inpatient custody of the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that a court may commit a capital murder defendant to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1315 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence offered by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1316 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
