republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-277.md

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Bill	Court fines and costs; community work in lieu of payment during imprisonment.	Payments of court fines and costs; communitywork in lieu of payment; during imprisonment. Allows courts toprovide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have beenimposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by earningcredits for the performance of community service work during imprisonment.Under current law, credit may be earned only for the performance ofcommunity service work completed before or after imprisonment.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 277	Virginia HB 277 (2020)	bill		enacted	Marcia S. "Cia" Price	4	28	6	2019-12-30	2020-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c829dfca-7c87-4c0c-ac10-31d05af57b24	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB277	90157a080fb197e3ad19333ff4b1c4a9174d4a447f2c32fa40a24c0ced365381	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 277 (2020) — Court fines and costs; community work in lieu of payment during imprisonment.

Payments of court fines and costs; communitywork in lieu of payment; during imprisonment. Allows courts toprovide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have beenimposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by earningcredits for the performance of community service work during imprisonment.Under current law, credit may be earned only for the performance ofcommunity service work completed before or after imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB277ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB277H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB277) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-30 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102588D introduction
• 2019-12-30 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB277)
• 2020-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-22 Committee substitute printed 20106260D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-22 Incorporates HB965 (Kilgore)
• 2020-01-22 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20106260D-H1
• 2020-01-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB277H1
• 2020-01-28 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-28 VOTE: (97-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-01-29 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB277H1)
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Enrolled
• 2020-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB277ER)
• 2020-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-20 Signed by President
• 2020-02-24 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2020
• 2020-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020
• 2020-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 25 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c829dfca-7c87-4c0c-ac10-31d05af57b24. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).