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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5148 Earned sentence credits; 4.5 credits may be earned for each 30 days served on certain sentences.
Introduced by: Don L. Scott | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Establishes a four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits. The bill also specifies certain crimes that are subject to the maximum 4.5 earned sentence credits for each 30 days served that is permitted under current law. The bill provides that the Department of Corrections shall convene in due course a work group to study the impact of the sentence credit amendments set forth in the act. The bill directs the work group to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by July 1, 2021, the membership of the work group and the work group's plan for conducting such study, including any data and information upon which the work group will rely in conducting such study, and to report its finding and conclusions to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2022. The remainder of the bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022, and requires the calculation of earned sentence credits to apply retroactively to the entire sentence of any inmate who is confined in a state correctional facility and participating in the earned sentence credit system on July 1, 2022. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
FULL TEXT
- 09/01/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20201069D pdf
- 09/02/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201113D-H1 pdf
- 09/04/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201142D-H2 pdf
- 09/09/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201159D-H3 (Scott) pdf | impact statement
- 09/18/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201211D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 10/13/20 House: Conference substitute printed 20201338D-H4 pdf
- 10/16/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5148ER) pdf | impact statement
- 11/09/20 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB5148ER2) pdf
- 11/09/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0050) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Conference amendments
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 09/01/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20201069D
- 09/01/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 09/02/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 9-N)
- 09/02/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201113D-H1
- 09/02/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 09/04/20 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 09/04/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201142D-H2
- 09/08/20 House: Read first time
- 09/09/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201159D-H3 (Scott)
- 09/09/20 House: Read second time
- 09/09/20 House: Courts of Justice Committee substitute rejected 20201113D-H1
- 09/09/20 House: Appropriations Committee substitute rejected 20201142D-H2
- 09/09/20 House: Substitute by Delegate Scott agreed to 20201159D-H3
- 09/09/20 House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB5148H3
- 09/10/20 House: Read third time and passed House (53-Y 43-N)
- 09/10/20 House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 43-N)
- 09/10/20 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 09/10/20 House: Passed House (54-Y 41-N)
- 09/10/20 House: VOTE: Passage #2 (54-Y 41-N)
- 09/15/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 09/15/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred from Judiciary (12-Y 0-N)
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 09/18/20 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (8-Y 6-N)
- 09/18/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201211D-S1
- 09/18/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 09/24/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 10/01/20 Senate: Read third time
- 10/01/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 10/01/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to
- 10/01/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB5148S1
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N)
- 10/02/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 10/02/20 House: Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 93-N)
- 10/02/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (0-Y 93-N)
- 10/07/20 Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (21-Y 15-N)
- 10/07/20 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 10/07/20 House: House acceded to request
- 10/07/20 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 10/07/20 House: Delegates: Scott, Herring, Miyares
- 10/07/20 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 10/07/20 Senate: Senators: Boysko, Surovell, Cosgrove
- 10/13/20 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 10/13/20 House: Conference substitute printed 20201338D-H4
- 10/14/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (54-Y 42-N)
- 10/14/20 House: VOTE: Agreed To (54-Y 42-N)
- 10/14/20 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 10/16/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/16/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5148ER)
- 10/16/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/16/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/21/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
- 10/21/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
- 10/28/20 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 11/09/20 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (54-Y 42-N)
- 11/09/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 42-N)
- 11/09/20 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (21-Y 18-N)
- 11/09/20 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 11/09/20 House: Reenrolled
- 11/09/20 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB5148ER2)
- 11/09/20 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 11/09/20 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 11/09/20 House: Enacted, Chapter 50 (effective 7/1/22 - see bill)
- 11/09/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0050)