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VAHB102Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB457VetoDecreasing 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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB838Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB898Enroll
75%
Department of Forensic Science; laboratory procedures; requirements regarding DNA profiles. Provides that when an accused person or his attorney files a motion for a scientific investigation, he must certify that the Department of Forensic Science or...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB972Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB926Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1539Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1515Enroll
75%
Discovery; electronic means. 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 or imposs...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB2VetoPurchase, 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB637VetoSubstantial 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB22PassManufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 163 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB63VetoCriminal 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB614VetoCommunity 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB1252VetoLimitation 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB1114PassPenalties for failure to appear; exclusion. Excludes any person who is (i) incarcerated in any correctional facility or (ii) (a) detained in any state or federal facility or (b) in the custody of a law-enforcement officer at the time such person is r...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB430PassBail; violation of conditions of release; report available to attorney for the Commonwealth and counsel of record. Requires that any report of a violation of any pretrial condition of release provided to the court shall be sent by the pretrial servic...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 74 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB76Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB78Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB155Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB246Enroll
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB306Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB361Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB679Enroll
75%
Quarters for magistrates; certain minimum standards for security and accessibility. Establishes certain minimum standards for ensuring security and accessibility in quarters for magistrates.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB769Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1014Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1268Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB612Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB824Enroll
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1264Enroll
75%
Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; 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 juve...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB698Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB857Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB896Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB916Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1217Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1427Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB243Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB438Enroll
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...
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2024-03-09
Passed by until Reconvene, Wednesday, April 17, 2024
VAHB1263Engross
50%
Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations court related to prose...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB427Intro
25%
Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the p...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB303Intro
25%
Certification of ancillary traffic infractions and civil offenses. Allows the court to certify any ancillary traffic infraction or civil offense to the clerk of the circuit court upon certification of any felony offense, provided that the attorney fo...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB394Intro
25%
Capital murder; death penalty. Authorizes punishment by death for capital murder. The bill also provides that the Supreme Court of Virginia shall give priority to the review of cases in which the sentence of death has been imposed over other cases pe...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB546Intro
25%
Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB167Intro
25%
Special grand juries. Directs a circuit court to impanel a special grand jury when an unarmed person is killed by a law-enforcement officer or a correctional officer, as those terms are defined in relevant law, to investigate and report on any condit...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB493Intro
25%
Power to arrest on property of owner. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any agent of the Commonwealth is prohibited from entering the property of another to remove the owner of such property or a family member of such person ...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB718Intro
25%
Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refus...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB834Intro
25%
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides a process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility or secure f...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB773Intro
25%
Marijuana; criminal penalties. Modifies several criminal penalties related to marijuana, imposes limits on dissemination of criminal history record information related to certain marijuana offenses, and provides a petition process for any person who ...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB851Intro
25%
Discovery; electronic means. 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. The bill...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB826Intro
25%
Action of forfeiture; exemptions; court-imposed fine. Provides that no property subject to seizure, pursuant to relevant law, shall be forfeited unless the total value of such property in the aggregate is less than or equal to the value of the fine i...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB482Intro
25%
Reports of certain arrests and convictions of school employees; timing; method. Requires any probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth, upon discovering that such supervised perso...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
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