Virginia House Bill 5141 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on August 26 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Possession of marijuana. Legalizes simple possession of marijuana. Current law provides a civil penalty of no more than $25 for the simple possession of marijuana. The bill also provides that simple possession of marijuana or its use by a child younger than 18 years of age may constitute conduct that presents a serious threat to the well-being of a child for the purposes of defining a "child in need of services." The bill also prohibits any law-enforcement officer from lawfully searching or seizing any person, place, or thing solely on the basis of the odor of marijuana and states that no evidence discovered or obtained as a result of such unlawful search or seizure shall be admissible in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding. Additionally, the bill allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions, adjudications, and deferred disposition dismissals for marijuana possession when all court costs and fines and orders of restitution have been paid. The bill also removes marijuana paraphernalia from the definition of drug paraphernalia and eliminates the criminal penalty for the sale of or possession with the intent to sell such paraphernalia. The bill contains technical amendments.

Marijuana; legalizes simple possession, etc.

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]

Del. Sally Hudson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-08-26	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-26	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200931D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1627	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	228	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	260	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	273	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	278.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	250	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	250.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251.1:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.1:5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	188.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	389.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	4113	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3442.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5141
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5141+hil