Virginia Senate Bill 489 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 12 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-12 - Failed to pass in Senate
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Authority to defer and dismiss a criminal case. Provides that a trial court presiding in a criminal case may, after any plea or trial, with or without a determination, finding, or pronouncement of guilt, and notwithstanding the entry of a conviction order, upon consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, upon its own motion with the consent of the defendant, or with the agreement of the defendant and the Commonwealth, defer proceedings, defer entry of a conviction order, if none, or defer entry of a final order, and continue the case for final disposition, on such reasonable terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties and placed on the record, or if there is no agreement, as may be imposed by the court. The bill provides that final disposition may include (i) conviction of the original charge, (ii) conviction of an alternative charge, or (iii) dismissal of the proceedings.

Criminal cases; authority to defer and dismiss.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2020-03-05 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (59-Y 40-N) (Y: 59 N: 40 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 38-N) (Y: 1 N: 38 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-03-02 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 6-N) (Y: 14 N: 6 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-12	Senate	Failed to pass in Senate
2020-03-12	Senate	No further action taken
2020-03-05	House	Delegates: Watts, Scott, Collins
2020-03-05	House	Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-05	Senate	Senators: Surovell, Deeds, Stanley
2020-03-05	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-05	Senate	Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
2020-03-05	House	House requested conference committee
2020-03-05	House	House insisted on substitute
2020-03-05	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 38-N)
2020-03-05	House	VOTE: Passage (59-Y 40-N)
2020-03-05	House	Passed House with substitute (59-Y 40-N)
2020-03-05	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB489H1
2020-03-05	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20109422D-H1
2020-03-05	House	Read third time
2020-03-04	House	Read second time
2020-03-02	House	Committee substitute printed 20109422D-H1
2020-03-02	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 6-N)
2020-02-28	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
2020-02-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-02-14	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-02-14	House	Read first time
2020-02-14	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-11	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB489S1
2020-02-10	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20105897D-S1
2020-02-10	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-10	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-07	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20105897D-S1
2020-02-05	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N)
2020-01-24	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104671D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	265.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	298.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB489
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB489+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB489S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB489H1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0194+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0410SB0489+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0485SB0489+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0212+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0422+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1634SB0489+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1679SB0489+SB0489
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV2009+SB0489