File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 227
- Sponsored By:
-
The Speaker (Administration) and Delegates Harkins, Hutchins, Workman,
Rudolph, DeCarlo, Cadden, and Proctor
- Entitled:
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Homicide - Penalties
Altering the list of aggravating circumstances that must be considered
by a court or jury when determining whether to impose a sentence of
death; and providing that the court or jury must consider whether one
or more persons, including principals in the first and second degree,
committed the murder of a law enforcement officer while the officer
was in the performance of his duties.
House Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Judiciary
- 1/29
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/3
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Speaker of the House of Delegates
- Administration
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DEATH PENALTY
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- MURDER
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
413
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)