Virginia House Bill 5062 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Passed on October 21 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-10-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Court authority in criminal cases; prosecutorial discretion to dispose of a criminal case. Requires a court to grant a motion to dismiss made by the Commonwealth, whether with or without prejudice, and with the consent of the defendant unless the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the motion was made as the result of (i) bribery or (ii) bias or prejudice toward a victim because of the race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin of the victim.

Court authority in criminal cases; prosecutorial discretion to dispose of a criminal case.

Del. Michael Mullin [D]	Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]	Del. David Reid [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]
Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Rodney Willett [D]

2020-10-02 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 39-N) (Y: 54 N: 39 NV: 6 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-10-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (31-Y 9-N) (Y: 31 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 1-N) (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-04 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N) (Y: 55 N: 43 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-08-26 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 8-N) (Y: 13 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-10-21		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)
2020-10-21		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 3/1/21)
2020-10-14		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
2020-10-14	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
2020-10-07	Senate	Signed by President
2020-10-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-10-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5062ER)
2020-10-07	House	Enrolled
2020-10-02	House	VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 39-N)
2020-10-02	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 20201289D-S3 (54-Y 39-N)
2020-10-02	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-10-01	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20201289D-S3 (Surovell)
2020-10-01	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (31-Y 9-N)
2020-10-01	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute HB5062S3
2020-10-01	Senate	Substitute by Senator Surovell agreed to
2020-10-01	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-10-01	Senate	Finance and Appropriations Committee substitute rejected
2020-10-01	Senate	Judiciary Committee substitute rejected
2020-10-01	Senate	Read third time
2020-10-01	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2020-09-25	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2020-09-24	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20201254D-S2
2020-09-24	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
2020-09-16	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-09-16	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20201196D-S1
2020-09-16	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 1-N)
2020-09-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-09-09	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-09-04	House	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N)
2020-09-04	House	Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N)
2020-09-03	House	Read second time and engrossed
2020-08-28	House	Read first time
2020-08-26	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 8-N)
2020-08-18	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-18	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200387D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	265.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5062
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5062+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5062S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5062S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5062S3+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5062ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+CHAP0021+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+H08V0019+HB5062
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+HV0049+HB5062
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+S03V0078+HB5062
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+S05V0034+HB5062
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+SV0151HB5062+HB5062
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+SV0185HB5062+HB5062
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+HV0116+HB5062