republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-103.md

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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	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.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 103	Virginia SB 103 (2020)	bill		enacted	David W. Marsden	4	31	6	2019-12-05	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/7667584e-d2d9-4991-b741-429f645278e6	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB103	6ec2bd8ef172aef8fb8e2d3d7ac8e78d27df8d91c969bf63c2f14b1d1e3f98b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB103ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB103) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB103H1) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/7667584e-d2d9-4991-b741-429f645278e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).