VA SB476 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-26 - Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-26 - Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for certain enumerated offenses. The bill also specifies that the provision in current law providing that a person who has been convicted of certain enumerated offenses may earn a maximum of 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served on any sentence for such offenses also applies to any other sentence that is to be served concurrent with or consecutive to any such sentence. The bill also clarifies that the provisions regarding the earning of credits for concurrent and consecutive sentences apply retroactively.
Title
Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses, concurrent and consecutive sentences.
Sponsors
Sen. Mark Peake [R] |
Roll Calls
2024-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2024-01-26 | Senate | Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
2024-01-09 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
2024-01-09 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104444D |