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2001 SESSION

017105508
SENATE BILL NO. 860
Offered January 10, 2001
Prefiled December 20, 2000
A BILL to amend and reenact § 17.1-275.5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees collected by the clerk for a felony reduced to a misdemeanor.
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Patron-- Norment
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17.1-275.5 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 17.1-275.5. Amounts to be added; judgment in favor of the Commonwealth.

A. The clerk shall assess, in addition to the fixed felony fee, the fixed fee for felony reduced to misdemeanor, or the fixed revocation fee, as the case may be, the following costs:

1. Any amount paid by the Commonwealth for legal representation of the defendant;

2. Any amount paid for trial transcripts;

3. Extradition costs;

4. Costs of psychiatric evaluation;

5. Costs taxed against the defendant as appellant under Rule 5A:30 of the Rules of the Supreme Court;

6. Any fee for a returned check or disallowed credit card charge assessed pursuant to subdivision A. 28. of § 17.1-275 A 28;

7. Any jury costs; and

8. Any assessment made pursuant to subdivision A. 10. of § 17.1-275 A 10 or clause (i) of subdivision 11 b of subsection A of §17.1-275.

B. The total amount of assessments described in subsection A of this section, including the fixed felony fee, fixed fee for felony reduced to misdemeanor, fixed felony revocation fee, or fixed misdemeanor revocation fee, as the case may be, and no other, shall be forthwith docketed by the clerk as a judgment against the defendant in favor of the Commonwealth.