Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender; bail bondsmen, increases penalty.
Summary
Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender;bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases to a Class 6 felony from aClass 1 misdemeanor the penalty for an owner or employee of a bailbond company that posted bond for a person to carnally know suchperson if the owner or employee has the authority to revoke the person'sbond.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 6, 2020
Signed Mar 27, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 4, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 4, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
34
Key actions
4
Committee
8
Mar 27, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (effective 7/1/20)
Mar 4, 2020
Senate · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Feb 28, 2020
Senate · Passed
Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
Feb 26, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
Feb 19, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Feb 19, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N)
Feb 12, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
Feb 11, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Feb 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N)
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
Jan 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Jan 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103236D
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Emily Jordan
RRepublican
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