---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile offenders; eligibility for parole."
description: "Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentence and any person who has active sentences that total more than 20 years for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentences shall be eligible for parole. This bill is identical to HB 35."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 103"
citation: "Virginia SB 103 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-12-05"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7667584e-d2d9-4991-b741-429f645278e6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB103"
source_hash: "6ec2bd8ef172aef8fb8e2d3d7ac8e78d27df8d91c969bf63c2f14b1d1e3f98b7"
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 SB 103 (2020) — Juvenile offenders; eligibility for parole.

Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentence and any person who has active sentences that total more than 20 years for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentences shall be eligible for parole. This bill is identical to HB 35.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0529)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB103ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB103ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB103)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB103)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB103H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB103H1)

## Votes

- Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 2-N) — **11–2** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 9-N) — **12–9** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 10-N) — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — **54–44** (pass) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (26-Y 14-N) — **26–14** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David W. Marsden — primary (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100929D `introduction`
- **2019-12-05** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-05** Introduced bill reprinted 20100929D
- **2020-01-08** Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
- **2020-01-15** Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-18** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB103)
- **2020-02-24** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute printed 20109029D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB103H1)
- **2020-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** Passed by temporarily
- **2020-02-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20109029D-H1
- **2020-02-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB103H1
- **2020-02-27** Passed House with substitute (55-Y 44-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
- **2020-03-02** House substitute agreed to by Senate (26-Y 14-N)
- **2020-03-02** Title replaced 20109029D-H1
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB103ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 529 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7667584e-d2d9-4991-b741-429f645278e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).