Virginia House Bill 953 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-20 - House: Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Assault and battery a felony when certain classes of people are victimized; penalty. Expands the class of people for whom, when they are victims of an assault or assault and battery, the offense is punished as a Class 6 felony. The expanded class would include a prison contractor as defined in §53.1-261, a person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inmates in the custody of the Department of Corrections (without regard to whether he is an employee of the Department of Corrections), a contractor providing services in a juvenile correction center operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice, and a person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of persons confined in a secure facility or detention home as defined in §16.1-228.

Assault and battery; adds prison contractor to class of people victimized in prisons, penalty.

Del. Robert Bell [R]

2012-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (18-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-20		House: Left in Appropriations
2012-02-10		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2012-02-06		House: Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
2012-02-03		House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2012-02-03		House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (18-Y 0-N)
2012-02-03		House: Committee substitute printed 12104627D-H1
2012-01-23		House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2012-01-23		House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
2012-01-20		House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2012-01-11		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-01-11		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12102907D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB953
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB953+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB953H1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+H0801V0042+HB0953
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+H08V0103+HB0953