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2008 SESSION

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SB 522 Law-enforcement officer; assault and battery against, penalty.

Introduced by: Mamie E. Locke | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Assault and battery; ABC agent, penalty.  Adds special agents of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, officers of the Virginia Marine Police and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to the definition of law-enforcement officer, which means that the punishment for committing an assault and battery on such a person who is engaged in the performance of his public duties is elevated from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony with a six-month mandatory minimum term of confinement. The bill will become effective only if an appropriation of general funds effectuating the purposes of the bill is included in the appropriations act. This bill incorporates SB 598.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/08  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086523824  pdf | impact statements
• 01/24/08  Senate: Committee substitute printed 080839256-S1  pdf | impact statements
• 01/31/08  Senate: Printed as engrossed 080839256-ES1  pdf | impact statements

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/09/08  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086523824
• 01/09/08  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/08  Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
• 01/23/08  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
• 01/23/08  Senate: Rereferred to Finance
• 01/24/08  Senate: Committee substitute printed 080839256-S1
• 01/29/08  Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
• 01/30/08  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 01/31/08  Senate: Read second time
• 01/31/08  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 01/31/08  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 080839256-S1
• 01/31/08  Senate: Reading of amendment waived
• 01/31/08  Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
• 01/31/08  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB522ES1
• 01/31/08  Senate: Printed as engrossed 080839256-ES1
• 02/01/08  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/01/08  Senate: Communicated to House
• 02/12/08  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/12/08  House: Read first time
• 02/12/08  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/14/08  House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
• 02/27/08  House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (18-Y 0-N)
• 02/27/08  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 03/03/08  House: Left in Appropriations