Virginia House Bill 400 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

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 suspended sentence. Under current law, there are limitations on the amount of active incarceration a court can impose for defined technical violations. The bill also removes limitations on the lengths of a period of probation and a period of suspension of a sentence that may be fixed by the court. Under current law, a court may fix the period of probation for up to the statutory maximum period for which the defendant might originally have been sentenced to be imprisoned and any period of supervised probation shall not exceed five years from the release of the defendant from any active period of incarceration, with some exceptions. The bill also makes changes to the time periods within which a court must issue process to notify the accused of a revocation hearing.

Active incarceration; probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence.

Del. Tim Griffin [R]

2024-01-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2024-01-17	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2024-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2024-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103402D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	303	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	303.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	306.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB400
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB400+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB400F160+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0801V0003+HB0400