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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.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 546

Virginia SB 546 (2020)

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enacted

John S. Edwards

2020-01-07

2020-04-09

openstates

ocd-bill/c620446c-3918-40b3-9dac-2657c2f4041d

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB546

12546fd37055682bd3598ca6c0c7890b223a57739abd958db1ba9d5d2f52e602

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

legislation

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us-va

Virginia SB 546 (2020) — Juveniles; trial as adult, minimum age.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0988) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB546ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by House - floor substitute SB546H2 (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB546S1 (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB546S1 (committee substitute) — source
SB546H1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) — 9–4 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Passed Senate (31-Y 8-N) — 31–8 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Passage (88-Y 10-N) — 87–10 (pass) · lower
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 5-N) — 16–5 (pass) · lower
House substitute agreed to by Senate (32-Y 6-N) — 32–6 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102990D introduction
2020-01-07 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 Committee substitute printed 20108088D-S1 substitution
2020-02-10 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) committee-passage
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20108088D-S1
2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB546S1
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Passed Senate (31-Y 8-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 with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
2020-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 5-N) committee-passage
2020-02-19 Committee substitute printed 20108510D-H1 substitution
2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-21 Floor substitute printed 20108708D-H2 (Mullin)
2020-02-24 Passed by for the day
2020-02-25 Passed by for the day
2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-26 Passed by temporarily
2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-26 Committee substitute rejected 20108510D-H1
2020-02-26 Substitute by Delegate Mullin agreed to 20108708D-H2
2020-02-26 Engrossed by House - floor substitute SB546H2
2020-02-26 Passed House with substitute (88-Y 10-N) passage
2020-02-26 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 10-N)
2020-02-28 House substitute agreed to by Senate (32-Y 6-N)
2020-02-28 Title replaced 20108708D-H2
2020-03-05 Enrolled
2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB546ER)
2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-07 Signed by President
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
2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 988 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c620446c-3918-40b3-9dac-2657c2f4041d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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