Influence-Tools/republic-os
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity
Files
main
republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-477.md
T
Fabio 5a13be122b Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 17:28:36 -04:00

8.0 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill Juveniles; trial as adult, minimum age. Juveniles; trial as adult. Increases from 14 years of age to 16 years of age the minimum age at which a juvenile must be tried as an adult in circuit court for murder or aggravated malicious wounding; however, if the juvenile is 14 years of age or older but younger than 16 years of age, the court, on motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth, shall hold a transfer hearing. The minimum age is also raised from 14 to 16 for certain charges requiring notice of intent to try such juvenile as an adult by the attorney for the Commonwealth. In order to be tried as an adult in circuit court for the charges that under current law require notice of intent to proceed with trial as an adult by the attorney for the Commonwealth, the bill requires that (i) a report concerning the juvenile be prepared by the court services unit or other qualified agency and (ii) the attorney for the Commonwealth provide written notice that he intends to proceed with a preliminary hearing for trial of such juvenile as an adult, including affirmation that he has read the report. This bill incorporates HB 1440. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 HB 477 Virginia HB 477 (2020)
bill
enacted
Elizabeth R. Guzman
6 46 10 2020-01-03 2020-04-09 openstates ocd-bill/55e5debf-0948-49f4-9a45-9769ca4b877e https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB477 af3bafcdc42ff2e664b902ef91fc11ba52c9cdfd123ff48cbaff10bf55f65a5c 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-va

Virginia HB 477 (2020) — Juveniles; trial as adult, minimum age.

Juveniles; trial as adult. Increases from 14 years of age to 16 years of age the minimum age at which a juvenile must be tried as an adult in circuit court for murder or aggravated malicious wounding; however, if the juvenile is 14 years of age or older but younger than 16 years of age, the court, on motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth, shall hold a transfer hearing. The minimum age is also raised from 14 to 16 for certain charges requiring notice of intent to try such juvenile as an adult by the attorney for the Commonwealth. In order to be tried as an adult in circuit court for the charges that under current law require notice of intent to proceed with trial as an adult by the attorney for the Commonwealth, the bill requires that (i) a report concerning the juvenile be prepared by the court services unit or other qualified agency and (ii) the attorney for the Commonwealth provide written notice that he intends to proceed with a preliminary hearing for trial of such juvenile as an adult, including affirmation that he has read the report. This bill incorporates HB 1440.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0987) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB477ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB477H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB477H1 (committee substitute) — source
  5. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB477S1 (committee substitute) — source
  6. HB477H2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Judiciary with substitute (12-Y 3-N) — 12–3 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Adoption (71-Y 28-N) — 70–28 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N) — 0–97 (fail) · lower
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (31-Y 9-N) — 31–9 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate with substitute (30-Y 9-N) — 30–9 (pass) · upper
  • Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Elizabeth R. Guzman — primary (person)
  • Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
  • Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
  • Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
  • Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100082D introduction
  • 2020-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2020-01-17 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
  • 2020-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-27 Committee substitute printed 20106147D-H1 substitution
  • 2020-01-27 Incorporates HB1440 (Jones)
  • 2020-01-29 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-01-30 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 20106147D-H1
  • 2020-01-30 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB477H1
  • 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-01-31 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2020-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB477H1)
  • 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (12-Y 3-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-12 Committee substitute printed 20108212D-S1 substitution
  • 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-02-17 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2020-02-17 Committee substitute agreed to 20108212D-S1
  • 2020-02-17 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB477S1
  • 2020-02-17 Passed Senate with substitute (30-Y 9-N) passage
  • 2020-02-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB477S1)
  • 2020-02-19 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-19 Passed by for the day
  • 2020-02-20 Senate substitute rejected by House 20108212D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
  • 2020-02-20 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N)
  • 2020-02-24 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-24 Senate requested conference committee
  • 2020-02-25 House acceded to request
  • 2020-02-26 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2020-02-27 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2020-03-05 Amended by conference committee
  • 2020-03-05 Conference substitute printed 20109534D-H2
  • 2020-03-05 Conference report agreed to by House (71-Y 28-N)
  • 2020-03-05 VOTE: Adoption (71-Y 28-N)
  • 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (31-Y 9-N)
  • 2020-03-18 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB477ER)
  • 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
  • 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 987 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55e5debf-0948-49f4-9a45-9769ca4b877e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

Reference in New Issue View Git Blame Copy Permalink