republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-1462.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail."
description: "Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates the provision prohibiting a judicial officer who is a magistrate, clerk, or deputy clerk of a district court or circuit court from admitting to bail, that is not set by a judge, any person who is charged with an offense giving rise to a rebuttable presumption against bail without the concurrence of an attorney for the Commonwealth. The bill also eliminates the requirement that notice be provided to the attorney for the Commonwealth before such judicial officer may set or admit a person to bail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1462"
citation: "Virginia HB 1462 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don L. Scott"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7b178ec-40f4-404a-80de-9de67775ca21"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1462"
source_hash: "df56625a2f4694c42c28eb08bdc8cd7acec2a6b9baf155577f15876cdecf7de7"
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 1462 (2020) — Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail.

Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates the provision prohibiting a judicial officer who is a magistrate, clerk, or deputy clerk of a district court or circuit court from admitting to bail, that is not set by a judge, any person who is charged with an offense giving rise to a rebuttable presumption against bail without the concurrence of an attorney for the Commonwealth. The bill also eliminates the requirement that notice be provided to the attorney for the Commonwealth before such judicial officer may set or admit a person to bail.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0999)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0999)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1462ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1462ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1462EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1462)
4. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1462EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1462EH1)
5. **HB1462H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1462H1)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 7-N) — **15–7** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 44-N) — **52–44** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 4-N) — **8–4** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — **54–44** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Don L. Scott — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103171D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-26** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- **2020-02-05** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-05** Committee substitute printed 20107424D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-05** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute agreed to 20107424D-H1
- **2020-02-07** Amendment by Delegate Scott agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-07** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1462EH1
- **2020-02-07** Printed as engrossed 20107424D-EH1
- **2020-02-10** Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-11** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-02-24** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-24** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate with amendment (22-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Senate amendment agreed to by House (53-Y 44-N)
- **2020-02-26** VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 44-N)
- **2020-03-03** Enrolled
- **2020-03-03** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-04** Signed by President
- **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
- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 999 (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/b7b178ec-40f4-404a-80de-9de67775ca21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).