Virginia Senate Bill 686 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on October 31 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-01-28 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession. Decriminalizes marijuana possession and changes the current $500 criminal fine for simple marijuana possession to a maximum $100 civil penalty payable to the Literary Fund and eliminates the 30-day jail sentence. The bill reduces the criminal penalties for distribution of marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that a person who grows no more than six marijuana plants does so only for personal use and not for distribution and provides that the suspended sentence/substance abuse screening provisions apply only to criminal violations or to civil violations by a minor. Marijuana is removed from a statute making it a Class 1 misdemeanor to distribute or display advertisements, etc., for instruments used for marijuana and from the common nuisance statute. The distribution of paraphernalia statute will apply only to an adult who distributes to a minor at least three years his junior. The bill also limits forfeiture of property from sale or distribution of marijuana to quantities of more than one pound; currently there is no minimum amount. The penalty for possession of marijuana by a prisoner is reduced from a Class 5 felony to a Class 6 felony.

Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession, penalty.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

2015-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) (Y: 9 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-28	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)
2015-01-28	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 15104017D-S1
2014-10-31	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-10-31	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100820D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	260	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	250.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	252	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	255.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	258	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	259.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	287.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.1:5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	460	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	386.22	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	390.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	203	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB686
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB686+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB686S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S03V0104+SB0686