Virginia Senate Bill 252 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-01-17 - Incorporated by Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses; report. Except for aggravated murder of a law-enforcement officer, eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confinement from the Code of Virginia. The bill directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of resentencing persons previously convicted of a felony offense that was punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement and to report its findings by November 1, 2022.

Mandatory minimum sentences; elimination, modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2022-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Judiciary (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-01-17	Senate	Incorporated by Judiciary
2022-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2022-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100249D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	253.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	154	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	186.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	255	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	255.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	270	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.2:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	36.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	36.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	374.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	374.1:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	374.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	46.3:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	51.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	53.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	60.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	61	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	67.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	67.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	67.5:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	67.5:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	297.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	4212	(n/a)	See Bill Text
4	1	302	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	341.28	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	391	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	865.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	203	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB252
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB252+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S03V0008+SB0252