Virginia House Bill 345 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes include: (i) limiting certain non-robbery crimes for which committing such crime with the intent to commit a robbery is an element to the offenses to the two higher degrees of robbery, (ii) allowing persons convicted of the two lesser degrees of robbery to be eligible for conditional release if they are terminally ill and for the enhanced earned sentence credits, (iii) allowing persons who are ineligible for parole as a result of being convicted of three certain enumerated offenses to be eligible for parole if convicted of an offense that would constitute any of the three lesser degrees of robbery, (iv) limiting the application of the three-strikes law to the two higher degrees of robbery and making persons convicted under the three-strikes law eligible for parole if one of the three convictions resulting in the mandatory life sentence would constitute one of the two lesser degrees of robbery, and (v) specifying that persons convicted of either of the two higher degrees of robbery while on administrative furlough or released for work release are ineligible for further furlough or work release and that persons convicted of such offenses are ineligible for home/electronic incarceration. The bill leaves unchanged the current law making all degrees of robbery predicate criminal acts by adding the two lesser degrees of robbery to the definition of "predicate criminal act" and adding the two higher degrees of robbery to the definition of "act of violence."

Robbery; conforms certain provisions of the Code of Virginia to the degrees of robbery offenses.

Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2022-02-09 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2022-02-09	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
2022-02-07	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2022-01-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2022-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102433D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	309.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	46.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	50.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	90	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	297.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	131.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	151	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	165.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	202.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	38	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	40.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	62	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB345
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB345+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22106406D.pdf
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0801V0361+HB0345