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2022 SESSION
SB 104 Mandatory minimum sentences; elimination, modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term.
Introduced by: Joseph D. Morrissey | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses; report. Except for aggravated murder of a law-enforcement officer, eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confinement from the Code of Virginia. The bill directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of resentencing persons previously convicted of a felony offense that was punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement and to report its findings by November 1, 2022.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100637D pdf
- 01/17/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22104619D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/22 Senate: Printed as engrossed 22104619D-ES1 pdf
- 02/14/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106532D-S2 (Morrissey) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
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- Senate amendments not adopted
HISTORY
- 01/06/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100637D
- 01/06/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/17/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
- 01/17/22 Senate: Incorporates SB252 (Edwards)
- 01/17/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22104619D-S1
- 01/17/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/01/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 6-N)
- 02/02/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22104619D-S1
- 02/03/22 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/03/22 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/03/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB104ES1
- 02/03/22 Senate: Printed as engrossed 22104619D-ES1
- 02/04/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/07/22 Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N)
- 02/08/22 Senate: Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/10/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/11/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/14/22 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/14/22 Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee amendment reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee amendment rejected
- 02/14/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106532D-S2 (Morrissey)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 22104619D-S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Substitute by Senator Morrissey agreed to 22106532D-S2
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reengrossed by Senate as amended SB104S2
- 02/14/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N)