Virginia Senate Bill 438 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-03 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Judicial performance evaluation program; risk assessment tool; use of alternative sanction. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to use sentencing guidelines to determine the cost of incarceration for an offender who receives the minimum recommended sentence and to include the cost on the sentencing guideline form. The bill also requires the Commission to determine the number of offenders during a judge's term who qualify for the use of the offender risk assessment tool and, on the basis of such assessment, are recommended to receive an alternative sanction and do not receive an alternative sanction.

Judicial performance evaluation program; risk assessment tool, use of alternative sanction.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2020-02-17 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 6-N) (Y: 2 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-02-17	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 6-N)
2020-02-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-02-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-02-12	House	Read first time
2020-02-12	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-06	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
2020-02-05	Senate	Printed as engrossed 20107500D-ES1
2020-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB438ES1
2020-02-05	Senate	Amendment by Senator Surovell agreed to
2020-02-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107500D-S1
2020-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-03	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
2020-02-03	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20107500D-S1
2020-01-30	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100176D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	1	100	(n/a)	See Bill Text
17	1	803	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB438
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB438+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB438S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB438ES1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0162+SB0438
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0333SB0438+SB0438
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0367SB0438+SB0438
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0179+SB0438