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VASB356Enroll
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
VASB504Enroll
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
VASB80VetoDecreasing 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
VASB2VetoPurchase, 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
VASB144VetoNolle 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB505VetoLimitation 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 ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB334VetoPlea 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB15Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB16Enroll
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
VASB386Enroll
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
VASB646Enroll
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
VASB448Enroll
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
VASB321Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB398Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB210Enroll
75%
Manufacture, 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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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB424Enroll
75%
Admission to bail; act of violence. Provides that a judicial officer who admits a person to bail who is charged with an act of violence shall notify the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which such person's case is filed contempor...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB654Enroll
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
VASB514Enroll
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
VASB637Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB625Enroll
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
VASB696Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB145Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB427Engross
50%
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci...
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2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB20Engross
50%
Deferred dispositions; expungement. Clarifies that a charged dismissed after a deferred disposition that may be eligible for expungement upon agreement of all parties includes an original charge that was reduced or a charge that is dismissed after a ...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB643Engross
50%
Penalties for failure to appear; contempt. Provides that any person (i) charged with a felony offense or misdemeanor offense or (ii) convicted of a felony offense or misdemeanor offense and execution of sentence is suspended who willfully fails to ap...
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2024-02-13
Chair votes No
VASB531Intro
25%
Application for and issuance of order authorizing interception of communications; Superintendent of State Police. Allows the Superintendent of State Police or his designee, if the Superintendent so designates in writing, to apply to a judge of compet...
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2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB481Intro
25%
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 district court related...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB633Intro
25%
Court fines and fees; indigent defendant; waiver of fees. Provides that in any criminal or traffic case, the court may waive the assessment of certain fees specified in the bill, either wholly or in part, if the court determines the defendant to be i...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB258Engross
50%
Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate must consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issui...
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2024-02-06
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
VASB278Intro
25%
Virginia Abortion Care and Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abort...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VASB82Intro
25%
Concealed handgun permit; concealed weapons permit. Changes the concealed handgun permit to a concealed weapons permit. The bill provides that a person who obtains a concealed weapons permit may carry such concealed weapons in any place where a perso...
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2024-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB639Intro
25%
Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Repeals the procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations di...
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2024-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB38Intro
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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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
VASB67Intro
25%
Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that a court may impose a sentence of a term of active incarceration upon a first or second technical violation of the terms and conditions of a suspende...
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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N)
VASB265Intro
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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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
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