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2024 SESSION
HB 614 Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated.
Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Requires a court to establish a program and allow any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by earning credits for the performance of community service work or work performed while incarcerated, defined in the bill as any work done on or after July 1, 2020, by a person confined in any penal or corrective institution of the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions who is paid a wage that is less than the Virginia minimum wage.
The bill requires such program be available during imprisonment in a local, regional, or state correctional facility. The bill provides that a person who is performing work while incarcerated shall be credited at the same rate as the community service work rate less any wages received. Under current law, a court is required to establish a program for providing an option for community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs but offering such option is not mandatory. The bill also requires the local, regional, or state correctional facility to provide confirmation of the hours worked and the credits earned for such work upon request of any person who has performed work while incarcerated or his representative.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104471D pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/24 House: Printed as engrossed 24104471D-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB614ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104471D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/30/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/02/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (4-Y 2-N)
- 02/02/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N)
- 02/07/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/08/24 House: Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
- 02/09/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- 02/09/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (16-Y 4-N)
- 02/11/24 House: Read first time
- 02/12/24 House: Read second time
- 02/12/24 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/12/24 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB614E
- 02/12/24 House: Printed as engrossed 24104471D-E
- 02/13/24 House: Read third time and passed House (64-Y 35-N)
- 02/13/24 House: VOTE: Passage (64-Y 35-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/27/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/24 Senate: Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N)
- 03/05/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB614ER)
- 03/05/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/20/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto