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2012 SESSION
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
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)