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type: "Bill"
title: "Adults sentenced for juvenile offenses; good conduct credit."
description: "Adults sentenced for juvenile offenses; good conduct credit. Provides that an adult sentenced for a juvenile offense can earn good conduct credit at the rate of one day for each one day served, including all days served while confined in jail or secured detention prior to conviction and sentencing, in which the adult has not violated the written rules and regulations of the jail. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference and is identical to HB 61."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 307"
citation: "Virginia SB 307 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-05"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16f95e9c-2c19-4d69-8ca2-653ea85d512e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB307"
source_hash: "32a2a194b42c152995251aa04dcfba855b93cc1543015763889f90ed6461cb88"
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 SB 307 (2020) — Adults sentenced for juvenile offenses; good conduct credit.
Adults sentenced for juvenile offenses; good conduct credit. Provides that an adult sentenced for a juvenile offense can earn good conduct credit at the rate of one day for each one day served, including all days served while confined in jail or secured detention prior to conviction and sentencing, in which the adult has not violated the written rules and regulations of the jail. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference and is identical to HB 61.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0532)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB307ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB307ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB307)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB307)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 2-N) — **192** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (10-Y 2-N) — **102** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 3-N) — **953** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100962D `introduction`
- **2020-01-05** 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
- **2020-02-10** Reported from Judiciary (10-Y 2-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`
- **2020-02-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB307)
- **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`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed House (96-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 3-N)
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB307ER)
- **2020-03-10** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 532 (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/16f95e9c-2c19-4d69-8ca2-653ea85d512e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).