Protective orders or stalking; third or subsequent offense.
Summary
Expands the offenses for which a conviction of a third or subsequent offense, when the offense is committed within 20 years of the first conviction and when either the instant or one of the prior offenses was based on an act or threat of violence and the instant and prior offenses arise out of separate incidents, is a Class 6 felony with a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months from violating a protective order to any combination of violating a protective order or stalking.
Bill status
passed
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Feb 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2017
Senate Passage
Feb 2017
Governor
Introduced Jan 20, 2017
Last action Feb 13, 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
12
Key actions
3
Committee
7
Feb 13, 2017
Committee
Rereferred to Finance
legislature
Feb 8, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Feb 7, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House (91-Y 6-N)
legislature
Feb 6, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2473H1
legislature
Feb 6, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 17105122D-H1
legislature
Feb 2, 2017
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
legislature
Feb 1, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
legislature
Jan 20, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Jan 20, 2017
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 17104574D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Benjamin L. Cline
RRepublican
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