| VA | HB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB63 | Veto | Criminal cases; request for a jury to ascertain punishment. Provides that an accused may withdraw a request for a jury to ascertain punishment up until the commencement of the sentencing proceeding. The bill also provides that counsel for either part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB438 | Enroll
75% | Written complaints; felony offenses. Provides that a written complaint is required for a felony offense, regardless of whether the complainant is a law-enforcement officer. Current law only requires a written complaint for any offense if the complain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB77 | Veto | Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes include: (i) limiting to the three higher degrees of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB246 | Enroll
75% | Fines, restitution, forfeiture, penalties, other costs; criminal and traffic cases; itemized statement. Requires the clerk of the court to provide an itemized statement to any defendant convicted of a traffic infraction or a violation of any criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB457 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB637 | Veto | Substantial risk orders; training program. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a Substantial Risk Order Training Program for the purposes of training law-enforcement agencies and other public institutions throughout the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB612 | Veto | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB614 | Veto | Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Requires a court to establish a program and allow any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll
75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB838 | Veto | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that for the purposes of expungement of police and court records the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB916 | Veto | Substantial Risk Order Reporting System established. Requires the Department of State Police to establish a Substantial Risk Order Reporting System for the purpose of tracking and reporting substantial risk orders by locality and to publish such repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB857 | Veto | Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB972 | Veto | Prohibiting inquiry into the immigration status of defendant; notification of consequences. Requires that at the initial court hearing for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1264 | Veto | Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1252 | Veto | Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1539 | Veto | Abortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; prohibited practices under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1515 | Veto | Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such material is prohibited from being distributed by law o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB76 | Pass | Foreman of grand jury; oaths of jurors and witnesses. Clarifies the oath of the foreman and other grand jurors. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 713 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB102 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 714 (effective 1/1/25) |
| VA | HB1268 | Pass | Eligibility for participation in community corrections alternative program; evaluation and diagnosis; referral to the Department of Corrections. Provides that a probation and parole officer may refer a defendant on probation to the Department of Corr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 650 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB896 | Pass | Deferred or installment payment agreements; certain benefits. Provides that in any case in which a defendant owes fines and costs and where such defendant's sole financial resource is a Social Security benefit or Supplemental Security Income, such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 735 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB926 | Pass | Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still image that depicts another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttock...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 697 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1542 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 615 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1337 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 654 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB78 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB306 | Pass | Appointment of counsel; public defenders; caseload exception. Exempts the public defender, in counties and cities where public defender offices are established, from providing defense services for indigent clients if the public defender, with the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 524 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB361 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening individuals as a condition of licensure, empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 526 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB769 | Pass | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; elder abuse crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, (ii) financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 397 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1427 | Pass | Fixing period of suspension of sentence; sexual battery; sexual abuse of a child under 15 years of age. Allows the court to fix the period of suspension of sentence for a period not to exceed three years for the offenses of sexual battery and sexual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 485 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB633 | Pass | Forced labor or service; penalties. Expands the offense of abduction to penalize any person who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, obtains the labor or services of another, or seizes, takes, transports, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| VA | HB1014 | Pass | Public defender offices; City of Harrisonburg and County of Rockingham. Establishes a public defender office for the City of Harrisonburg and the County of Rockingham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| VA | HB1217 | Pass | Cell phone records; missing persons. Provides that a court shall issue an order for disclosure of records or other information pertaining to a subscriber to or customer of a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| VA | HB155 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that in claims for an award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund involving claims of sexual abuse of a minor where the conduct constitutes a felony, the passage of time shall not be a bar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| VA | HB679 | Pass | Quarters for magistrates; certain minimum standards for security and accessibility. Establishes certain minimum standards for ensuring security and accessibility in quarters for magistrates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201) |
| VA | HB898 | Pass | Department of Forensic Science; laboratory procedures; requirements regarding DNA profiles. Provides that when an accused person or his attorney files a motion for a scientific investigation, he must certify that the Department of Forensic Science or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| VA | HB1498 | Pass | Adult day care centers; name change. Renames "adult day care centers" as "adult day centers" throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150) |
| VA | HB1114 | Pass | Penalties for failure to appear; exclusion. Excludes any person who is (i) incarcerated in any correctional facility or (ii) (a) detained in any state or federal facility or (b) in the custody of a law-enforcement officer at the time such person is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| VA | HB430 | Pass | Bail; violation of conditions of release; report available to attorney for the Commonwealth and counsel of record. Requires that any report of a violation of any pretrial condition of release provided to the court shall be sent by the pretrial servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074) |
| VA | HB1263 | Engross
50% | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB303 | Intro
25% | Certification of ancillary traffic infractions and civil offenses. Allows the court to certify any ancillary traffic infraction or civil offense to the clerk of the circuit court upon certification of any felony offense, provided that the attorney fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB394 | Intro
25% | Capital murder; death penalty. Authorizes punishment by death for capital murder. The bill also provides that the Supreme Court of Virginia shall give priority to the review of cases in which the sentence of death has been imposed over other cases pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB167 | Intro
25% | Special grand juries. Directs a circuit court to impanel a special grand jury when an unarmed person is killed by a law-enforcement officer or a correctional officer, as those terms are defined in relevant law, to investigate and report on any condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB427 | Intro
25% | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB400 | Intro
25% | Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; repeal. Repeals the limitations on the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as a result of a revocation hearing for a probation violation or violation of the terms and conditions of a su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB546 | Intro
25% | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB493 | Intro
25% | Power to arrest on property of owner. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any agent of the Commonwealth is prohibited from entering the property of another to remove the owner of such property or a family member of such person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB520 | Engross
50% | Promise to appear after the issuance of a summons; issuance of summons instead of warrant in certain cases; nonviolent felonies. Provides that if any person refuses to give a written promise to appear after the issuance of a summons, the arresting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB482 | Intro
25% | Reports of certain arrests and convictions of school employees; timing; method. Requires any probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth, upon discovering that such supervised perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
