Virginia House Bill 1455 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2023 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-15 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, to another person without such person's knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder of the first degree by poison. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the first degree by poison.

Fentanyl; selling, giving, or distributing a substance that contains 2 mgms. or more, penalties.

Del. Timothy Anderson [R]	Del. Dave LaRock [R]	Del. Mike Cherry [R]	Del. Nadarius Clark [D]
Del. AC Cordoza [R]	Del. Marie March [R]	Del. Anne Ferrell Tata [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]
Del. Bill Wiley [R]	Del. Wren Williams [R]

2023-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (70-Y 29-N) (Y: 70 N: 29 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 5-N) (Y: 15 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-15	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (8-Y 7-N)
2023-02-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-02-08	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-02-07	House	VOTE: Passage (70-Y 29-N)
2023-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House (70-Y 29-N)
2023-02-06	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1455H1
2023-02-06	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23106356D-H1
2023-02-06	House	Read second time
2023-02-05	House	Read first time
2023-02-03	House	Committee substitute printed 23106356D-H1
2023-02-03	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 5-N)
2023-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
2022-12-21	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2022-12-21	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103550D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	248.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1455
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1455+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1455H1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106010D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/23106350D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1455F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1455F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1455FH1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1455FH1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0801V0200+HB1455
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H08V0148+HB1455
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1597+HB1455
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0254+HB1455