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2020 SESSION
HB 988 Compensating victims of crime; persons eligible for award includes grandchildren.
Introduced by: Amanda E. Batten | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Compensating victims of crime; persons eligible for award; grandchildren. Includes grandchildren of the victim of a crime, who are alive at the time of the commission of the crime, in the list of persons eligible for compensation as a result of the death of the victim (i) as a direct result of the crime or (ii) due to the victim's trying to prevent a crime or attempted crime from occurring or trying to apprehend a person who had committed a crime in his presence or had committed a felony.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101592D pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB988ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/25/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101592D
- 01/07/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/16/20 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/17/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/22/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/22/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/23/20 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 01/27/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/20 House: Read first time
- 02/03/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/05/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/17/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/25/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/27/20 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/04/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB988ER)
- 03/05/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/05/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 03/25/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 446 (effective 7/1/20)
- 03/25/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446)