---
type: "Bill"
title: "Presentence report; waiver by defendant."
description: "Expands from guilty to guilty or nolo contendere the pleas for which a court is required to direct a probation officer to create a presentence report upon conviction for certain felonies. The bill provides that upon a conviction or plea agreement for such felonies, the defendant and the attorney for the Commonwealth may waive the presentence report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1647"
citation: "Virginia HB 1647 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Manoli Loupassi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a1f042f-6f22-458b-93dc-d3f39fcdac16"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1647"
source_hash: "0e1e09ba7b6e509fdbbba8aa2d659b6364eb111b383c4c45b11bc581fa783592"
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 1647 (2017) — Presentence report; waiver by defendant.

Expands from guilty to guilty or nolo contendere the pleas for which a court is required to direct a probation officer to create a presentence report upon conviction for certain felonies. The bill provides that upon a conviction or plea agreement for such felonies, the defendant and the attorney for the Commonwealth may waive the presentence report.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0045)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1647ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1647ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102160D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1647)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102160D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1647E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate with amendment — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- G. Manoli Loupassi — primary (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102160D `introduction`
- **2017-01-04** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Passed by temporarily
- **2017-01-25** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB1647E
- **2017-01-25** Printed as engrossed 17102160D-E
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-08** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-10** Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-13** Enrolled
- **2017-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
- **2017-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
- **2017-02-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 45 (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/2a1f042f-6f22-458b-93dc-d3f39fcdac16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).