HB 1855 Virginia House of Delegates · 2017 Regular Session

Court-ordered restitution; form order, enforcement, noncompliance, etc.

Summary
Makes numerous changes related to the repayment of court-ordered restitution, including: (i) requiring the court to enter the amount of restitution, the date by which all restitution is to be paid, and the terms and conditions of repayment on a form prescribed by the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court; (ii) providing that docketing an order of restitution as a civil judgment does not prohibit the court from enforcing such order by any other available means; and (iii) requiring the clerk of every circuit and district court to submit quarterly reports to the attorney for the Commonwealth and any probation agency serving the locality listing (a) all defendants with outstanding balances of court-ordered restitution and (b) all accounts where more than 90 days have passed since such account was sent to collections and no payments have been made. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to
Bill status passed 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Feb 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Apr 2017
Senate Passage
Feb 2017
Governor
Introduced Jan 10, 2017 Last action Apr 5, 2017
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
38
Key actions
9
Committee
8
Amendments
1
Apr 5, 2017
Executive · Passed
Governor's recommendation adopted
executive
Apr 5, 2017
Legislature · Passed
House concurred in Governor's recommendation (98-Y 0-N)
legislature
Feb 21, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed by for the day
legislature
Feb 20, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1855S1
legislature
Feb 20, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 17105293D-S1
legislature
Feb 16, 2017
Committee
Recommitted to Courts of Justice
legislature
Feb 16, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
legislature
Feb 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed by for the day
legislature
Feb 3, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Feb 2, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
legislature
Feb 1, 2017
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1855E
legislature
Feb 1, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
legislature
Jan 13, 2017
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
legislature
Jan 10, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Jan 10, 2017
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103212D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
State
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Photo of Robert B. Bell
Robert B. Bell
RRepublican
VA
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