| VA | HB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB15 | Veto | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | HB63 | Veto | Criminal cases; request for a jury to ascertain punishment. Provides that an accused may withdraw a request for a jury to ascertain punishment up until the commencement of the sentencing proceeding. The bill also provides that counsel for either part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB246 | Enroll
75% | Fines, restitution, forfeiture, penalties, other costs; criminal and traffic cases; itemized statement. Requires the clerk of the court to provide an itemized statement to any defendant convicted of a traffic infraction or a violation of any criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB438 | Enroll
75% | Written complaints; felony offenses. Provides that a written complaint is required for a felony offense, regardless of whether the complainant is a law-enforcement officer. Current law only requires a written complaint for any offense if the complain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB614 | Veto | Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Requires a court to establish a program and allow any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB144 | Veto | Nolle prosequi or dismissal prior to preliminary hearing; subsequent indictment. Provides that no person who was arrested on a warrant charging him with a felony offense shall be denied a preliminary hearing upon the question of whether there is prob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB457 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB637 | Veto | Substantial risk orders; training program. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a Substantial Risk Order Training Program for the purposes of training law-enforcement agencies and other public institutions throughout the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll
75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB612 | Veto | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB838 | Veto | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that for the purposes of expungement of police and court records the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB857 | Veto | Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1264 | Veto | Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB505 | Veto | Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that, when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB972 | Veto | Prohibiting inquiry into the immigration status of defendant; notification of consequences. Requires that at the initial court hearing for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1252 | Veto | Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB916 | Veto | Substantial Risk Order Reporting System established. Requires the Department of State Police to establish a Substantial Risk Order Reporting System for the purpose of tracking and reporting substantial risk orders by locality and to publish such repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB334 | Veto | Plea agreements; prohibited provisions. Prohibits plea agreements and court orders executed or entered on or after July 1, 2024, from containing any provision that purports to waive, release, or extinguish a defendant's (i) rights under the Fourth Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB698 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB654 | Veto | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB514 | Veto | Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB504 | Veto | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that, for the purposes of expungement of police and court records, the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1539 | Veto | Abortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; prohibited practices under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1515 | Veto | Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such material is prohibited from being distributed by law o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB696 | Veto | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | HB243 | Veto | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; availability of complaint forms in courthouses. Requires that paper copies of any standardized form developed and utilized by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission or by the Department of Magistrate Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB80 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | HB76 | Pass | Foreman of grand jury; oaths of jurors and witnesses. Clarifies the oath of the foreman and other grand jurors. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 713 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB102 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 714 (effective 1/1/25) |
| VA | SB356 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 770 (effective 1/1/25) |
| VA | HB1268 | Pass | Eligibility for participation in community corrections alternative program; evaluation and diagnosis; referral to the Department of Corrections. Provides that a probation and parole officer may refer a defendant on probation to the Department of Corr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 650 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB896 | Pass | Deferred or installment payment agreements; certain benefits. Provides that in any case in which a defendant owes fines and costs and where such defendant's sole financial resource is a Social Security benefit or Supplemental Security Income, such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 735 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB926 | Pass | Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still image that depicts another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttock...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 697 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB625 | Pass | Deferred or installment payment agreements; certain benefits. Provides that in any case in which a defendant owes fines and costs and where such defendant's sole financial resource is a Social Security benefit or Supplemental Security Income, such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 775 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB16 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB78 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB306 | Pass | Appointment of counsel; public defenders; caseload exception. Exempts the public defender, in counties and cities where public defender offices are established, from providing defense services for indigent clients if the public defender, with the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 524 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB361 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening individuals as a condition of licensure, empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 526 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB321 | Pass | Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 589 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB398 | Pass | Protective orders; respondent to notify court of change of address. Requires the respondent against whom a protective order has been issued to notify the court in writing within seven days of any change of residence while such order is in effect, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 594 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB145 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; armed security officer registration. Provides that a special conservator of the peace may possess simultaneous registration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services as an armed security officer and shall mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 577 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB769 | Pass | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; elder abuse crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, (ii) financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| VA | HB1427 | Pass | Fixing period of suspension of sentence; sexual battery; sexual abuse of a child under 15 years of age. Allows the court to fix the period of suspension of sentence for a period not to exceed three years for the offenses of sexual battery and sexual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 485 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB637 | Pass | Collections of fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, etc.; duty of attorneys for the Commonwealth; consultation with clerk. Requires that at least 30 days prior to the execution of a contract with a private attorney or private collection agency to un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 518 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1014 | Pass | Public defender offices; City of Harrisonburg and County of Rockingham. Establishes a public defender office for the City of Harrisonburg and the County of Rockingham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| VA | HB1217 | Pass | Cell phone records; missing persons. Provides that a court shall issue an order for disclosure of records or other information pertaining to a subscriber to or customer of a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| VA | HB155 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that in claims for an award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund involving claims of sexual abuse of a minor where the conduct constitutes a felony, the passage of time shall not be a bar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
