Virginia House Bill 1614 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 10 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-03 - Left in Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Victims of human trafficking; affirmative defense to prosecution for certain offenses. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution for prostitution and keeping, residing in, or frequenting a bawdy place if, at the time of the offense leading to such charge, such person was a victim of human trafficking, as defined in the bill, and (i) was coerced to engage in the offense through the use of force or intimidation of another, (ii) such offense was committed as part of a commercial sex trafficking scheme, or (iii) such offense was committed at the direction of an operator of a commercial sex trafficking scheme. The bill also states that a victim of human trafficking may raise such affirmative defense regardless of whether any other person has been arrested for, prosecuted for, charged with, or convicted of an offense.

Victims of human trafficking; affirmative defense to prosecution for certain offenses.

Sen. Emily Brewer [R]

Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]

Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]

Del. Jason Miyares [R]

2020-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) (Y: 32 N: 0 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 6 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	Senate	Left in Judiciary
2020-02-26	Senate	Recommitted to Judiciary
2020-02-26	Senate	Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
2020-02-26	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-25	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-24	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-24	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-21	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
2020-02-19	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
2020-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-11	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1614H1
2020-02-10	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20107515D-H1
2020-02-10	House	Read second time
2020-02-09	House	Read first time
2020-02-07	House	Committee substitute printed 20107515D-H1
2020-02-07	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
2020-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
2020-01-28	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-01-16	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-01-16	House	Presented and ordered printed 20104514D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	361.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1614
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1614+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1614H1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0101+HB1614
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0221+HB1614
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0937+HB1614
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0387+HB1614
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0846HB1614+HB1614