republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-133.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	Criminal cases; deferred disposition.	Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability and the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the criminal conduct was caused by or had a direct and substantial relationship to the person's disorder or disability.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 133	Virginia SB 133 (2020)	bill		enacted	Richard H. Stuart	4	35	9	2019-12-18	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/493796aa-cc16-49dd-898e-648d850741ec	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB133	5e0166c738acb4f2edaef0ae9ea1f219b5b8ce49c57f6e62b3fb9bb1237e79fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 133 (2020) — Criminal cases; deferred disposition.

Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability and the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the criminal conduct was caused by or had a direct and substantial relationship to the person's disorder or disability.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1004) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB133ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB133) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB133H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 4-N) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (89-Y 7-N) — 88–7 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) — 4–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101156D introduction
• 2019-12-18 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB133)
• 2020-02-10 Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N)
• 2020-02-19 Reconsidered by sub: Criminal
• 2020-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
• 2020-02-28 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-28 Committee substitute printed 20109032D-H1 substitution
• 2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB133H1)
• 2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 20109032D-H1
• 2020-03-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB133H1
• 2020-03-04 Passed House with substitute (89-Y 7-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Passage (89-Y 7-N)
• 2020-03-05 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-05 Title replaced 20109032D-H1
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled
• 2020-03-12 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-16 Impact statement from DPB (SB133ER)
• 2020-03-17 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
• 2020-03-17 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1004 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/493796aa-cc16-49dd-898e-648d850741ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).