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2012 SESSION

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HB 185 Criminal cases; fines collected upon conviction shall be credited to Literary Fund.

Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)

Manner of enforcement of state criminal offenses.  Provides that when a law-enforcement officer of the Department of State Police or any other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a violation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or summoned must be charged with a violation of that Code provision and not with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines collected upon conviction are to be credited to the Literary Fund.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/12  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100295D  pdf
• 01/20/12  House: Committee substitute printed 12104306D-H1  pdf | impact statement
• 02/20/12  Senate: Committee substitute printed 12105521D-S1  pdf
• 03/05/12  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB185ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/18/12  House: Reenrolled bill text (HB185ER2)  pdf
• 04/18/12  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• Governor's recommendation

HISTORY

• 01/09/12  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100295D
• 01/09/12  House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
• 01/13/12  House: Assigned CC & T sub: #1
• 01/18/12  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
• 01/20/12  House: Committee substitute printed 12104306D-H1
• 01/20/12  House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (20-Y 1-N)
• 01/23/12  House: Read first time
• 01/24/12  House: Passed by for the day
• 01/25/12  House: Read second time
• 01/25/12  House: Committee substitute agreed to 12104306D-H1
• 01/25/12  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB185H1
• 01/26/12  House: Read third time and passed House (95-Y 2-N)
• 01/26/12  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 2-N)
• 01/27/12  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/27/12  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/20/12  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 02/20/12  Senate: Committee substitute printed 12105521D-S1
• 02/20/12  Senate: Rereferred to Finance
• 02/28/12  Senate: Reported from Finance (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/29/12  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/29/12  Senate: Read third time
• 02/29/12  Senate: Passed by temporarily
• 02/29/12  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/29/12  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 12105521D-S1
• 02/29/12  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB185S1
• 02/29/12  Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 3-N)
• 02/29/12  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/29/12  House: Passed by temporarily
• 02/29/12  House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 12105521D-S1 (71-Y 3-N)
• 02/29/12  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (71-Y 3-N)
• 03/05/12  House: Enrolled
• 03/05/12  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB185ER)
• 03/05/12  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/07/12  Senate: Signed by President
• 04/09/12  House: Governor's recommendation received by House
• 04/17/12  House: Placed on Calendar
• 04/18/12  House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
• 04/18/12  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
• 04/18/12  Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (38-Y 1-N)
• 04/18/12  Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
• 04/18/12  House: Reenrolled
• 04/18/12  House: Reenrolled bill text (HB185ER2)
• 04/18/12  House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 04/18/12  Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
• 04/18/12  House: Enacted, Chapter 749 (effective 7/1/12)
• 04/18/12  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749)