CHAPTER NUMBER: 306
File Code: Public Safety
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 235
- Sponsored By:
-
The Speaker (Administration) and Delegates Vallario, Perry, Harkins, Bissett, M. Burns, Jacobs, Fry,
B. Hughes, Palumbo, Hubbard, Benson, Crumlin, D. Davis, Parker, Muse,
Proctor, and Exum
- Entitled:
-
Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release
Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from releasing pretrial an
individual previously convicted of a crime of violence, in this State
or elsewhere, if the individual is charged with another crime of
violence; clarifying that a judge may allow pretrial release on
suitable bail, specified conditions, or on a combination of the two;
and requiring a judge to order continued detention of a defendant
under specified circumstances.
House Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 2/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/28
- Third Reading Passed (135-0)
- 3/31
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Menes, R. Baker, M. Burns
- 4/5
- Returned Passed
- 5/8
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 306
Senate Action
- 3/3
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/4
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
- 4/6
- Senate Recede
- Motion Reconsider Third Reading (Senator W. Baker) Adopted
- Motion Reconsider Committee Amendment (Judicial Proceedings) Adopted
- Committee Amendment (Judicial Proceedings) Withdrawn
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Speaker of the House of Delegates
- Administration
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Phillip D. Bissett, District 30
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate C. Anthony Muse, District 26
- Delegate Richard A. Palumbo, District 22A
- Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
- Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
- Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BAIL
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DISTRICT COURTS
- JUDGES
- PRETRIAL DETENTION OR RELEASE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
616 1/2
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 901083/2 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 25, 1997 at: 10:39
Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 428049/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997 at: 18:53
Status: Withdrawn