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| Bill | Capital murder; punishment if against law-enforcement officers and fire marshals. | Provides that any person convicted of capital murder of a law-enforcement officer or certain other public safety officials who was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense shall be sentenced to no less than a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 2615 | Virginia HB 2615 (2019) |
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6 | 25 | 8 | 2019-01-09 | 2019-04-03 | openstates | ocd-bill/9cb592df-053f-4c71-b26f-7eae97288437 | http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2615 | a53285525c1d28da47c1156b75d13f31bb86fca9adead284c29d4bf430d8775c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 2615 (2019) — Capital murder; punishment if against law-enforcement officers and fire marshals.
Provides that any person convicted of capital murder of a law-enforcement officer or certain other public safety officials who was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense shall be sentenced to no less than a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) (committee substitute) — source
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2615ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 19106312D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Presented and ordered printed 19103652D (committee substitute) — source
- House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2615ER2) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- House concurred in Governor's recommendation — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — 21–18 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 10–4 (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation — 34–4 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 18–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)
- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie R. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-09 Presented and ordered printed 19103652D
introduction - 2019-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2019-01-15 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
referral-committee - 2019-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-02-04 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 19106312D-H1
- 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2615H1
- 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2019-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-15 Enrolled
- 2019-02-15 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-15 Signed by President
- 2019-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
- 2019-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-21 Governor's recommendation received by House
- 2019-04-03 Placed on Calendar
- 2019-04-03 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
- 2019-04-03 Governor's recommendation adopted
- 2019-04-03 Reenrolled
- 2019-04-03 Reenrolled bill text (HB2615ER2)
- 2019-04-03 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 2019-04-03 Signed by President as reenrolled
- 2019-04-03 Enacted, Chapter 835 (effective 7/1/19)
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cb592df-053f-4c71-b26f-7eae97288437. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).