Virginia Senate Bill 973 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any civilly committed sexually violent predator who tampers with or in any way attempts to circumvent the operation of his GPS equipment while on conditional release.

Sexually violent predators; civil commitment, penalty.

Sen. Mark Peake [R]

2023-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N) (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2023-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-20 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N) (Y: 18 N: 22 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2023-02-16 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380)
2023-03-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 380 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB973ER)
2023-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2023-02-24	House	VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
2023-02-24	House	Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
2023-02-24	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-24		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2023-02-23	House	Delegates: Durant, Adams, L.R., Watts
2023-02-23	House	Conferees appointed by House
2023-02-22	Senate	Senators: Peake, Surovell, Deeds
2023-02-22	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2023-02-22	Senate	Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	House	House requested conference committee
2023-02-21	House	House insisted on substitute
2023-02-20	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N)
2023-02-20	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2023-02-16	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-16	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-16	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB973H1
2023-02-16	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23106683D-H1
2023-02-16	House	Read third time
2023-02-15	House	Read second time
2023-02-13	House	Committee substitute printed 23106683D-H1
2023-02-13	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
2023-02-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-02-09	House	Read first time
2023-02-09	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-01-31	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2023-01-30	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB973S1
2023-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 23105205D-S1
2023-01-30	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-01-30	Senate	Read second time
2023-01-27	Senate	Passed by for the day
2023-01-26	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2023-01-25	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
2023-01-23	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2023-01-23	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23105205D-S1
2023-01-23	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2023-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101625D

HB1931 (Same As) 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379)
HB1931 (Same As) 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	2	906	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	912	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB973
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB973+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB973S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB973H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB973ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0380+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB973AC
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973FS1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973FS1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973FH1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB973FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0069+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S05V0081+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0125SB0973+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0166SB0973+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H08V0259+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1896+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0605SB0973+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0779SB0973+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0946SB0973+SB0973
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2350+SB0973