Bill Text: VA HB75 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Home/electronic incarceration; court may allow person convicted credit for time served.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - House: Left in Courts of Justice [HB75 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-HB75-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 75 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled December 21, 2011 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19.2-303.6, relating to time-served credit for pretrial home/electronic incarceration. ---------- Patron-- Habeeb ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 19.2-303.6 as follows:

§19.2-303.6. Time-served credit for pretrial home/electronic incarceration.

A circuit or district court, when imposing a sentence of incarceration upon a person convicted of a criminal offense, may allow the person convicted credit for time served prior to trial under home/electronic incarceration authorized under §19.2-123 and shall set forth in the sentencing order whether or not the convicted person is to receive such credit.