---
type: "Bill"
title: "Defendants; transportation order from correctional facility."
description: "Requires the court or clerk, upon request of the attorney for the Commonwealth or counsel for the defendant, to issue a transportation order for a defendant to be brought to court from a correctional facility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1579"
citation: "Virginia HB 1579 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Criminal Procedure", "Prisons and Other Methods of Correction"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey L. Campbell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-02"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3a8ff64-3408-4ae8-87f2-64094574c5d2"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1579"
source_hash: "1a234152e395f6c9c17e1a5984e30ae4b3b895c01a3cf3c877562ed5b1005eec"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1579 (2017) — Defendants; transportation order from correctional facility.

Requires the court or clerk, upon request of the attorney for the Commonwealth or counsel for the defendant, to issue a transportation order for a defendant to be brought to court from a correctional facility.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0479)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1579ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101551D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17101551D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579E)
5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105560D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579S1)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105560D-S1 — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101551D `introduction`
- **2017-01-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB1579E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17101551D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 17105560D-S1
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1579S1
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105560D-S1 (94-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3a8ff64-3408-4ae8-87f2-64094574c5d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).