Grand larceny; increases threshold amount.
Summary
Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $500 to $1,000 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the classification of certain property crimes. This bill is identical to HB 995.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 8, 2020
Signed Mar 23, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 11, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 24, 2020
How they voted
26–14
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 11, 2020
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
68% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Mar 23, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 401 (effective 7/1/20)
Feb 24, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Passed House (58-Y 40-N)
Feb 19, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 7-N)
Feb 14, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Feb 11, 2020
Senate · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 14-N)
Feb 5, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 5-N)
Jan 8, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
Jan 8, 2020
Senate · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103374D
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
JL
Jennifer L McClellan
DDemocratic
Co
David Suetterlein
RRepublican
Co
Jennifer Boysko
DDemocratic
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