republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/hb-361.md

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Bill	Earned sentence credits; incarceration while awaiting trial or pending an appeal, effective date.	Earned sentence credits; incarceration while awaiting trial or pending an appeal. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits includes any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state hospital, or juvenile detention facility awaiting trial or pending an appeal that was deducted from such person's term of incarceration or detention. The bill provides that the provisions apply retroactively to any person who is confined in any state or local correctional facility on July 1, 2028. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2028.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	HB 361	Virginia HB 361 (2026)	bill		enacted	Holly M. Seibold	8	50	13	2026-01-12	2026-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/00ce47e0-75f6-4ec8-a598-ec81f8b4529a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB361	40bc4592d180037ce5f47a314b2b406d930afc72d17c0ad132b2b7ca89cb5ac9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 361 (2026) — Earned sentence credits; incarceration while awaiting trial or pending an appeal, effective date.

Earned sentence credits; incarceration while awaiting trial or pending an appeal. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits includes any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state hospital, or juvenile detention facility awaiting trial or pending an appeal that was deducted from such person's term of incarceration or detention. The bill provides that the provisions apply retroactively to any person who is confined in any state or local correctional facility on July 1, 2028. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2028.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Criminal Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• H VOTE: — 1–98 (fail) · lower
• H VOTE: — 65–31 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations — 15–7 (pass) · lower
• Insist & Request R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) — 16–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Adopt Conference Committee Report R — 21–18 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute — 11–4 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 68–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Holly M. Seibold — primary (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100485D filing, introduction
• 2026-01-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2026-01-20 Assigned HCJ sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2026-01-21 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 1-N)
• 2026-01-28 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (16-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2026-01-29 Assigned HAPP sub: Transportation & Public Safety referral-committee
• 2026-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB361)
• 2026-02-11 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
• 2026-02-11 Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-16 committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2026-02-16 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (69-Y 27-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB361)
• 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2026-02-23 Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2026-03-04 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2026-03-05 Committee substitute printed 26109145D-S1 substitution
• 2026-03-05 Rules suspended
• 2026-03-05 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-05 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-06 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-09 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-09 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2026-03-09 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2026-03-09 Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-11 Senate substitute rejected by House (1-Y 98-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-12 Senate insisted on substitute Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) substitution
• 2026-03-12 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2026-03-12 House acceded to request
• 2026-03-12 Conferees appointed by House
• 2026-03-12 House Conferees: Seibold, Schmidt, Williams
• 2026-03-12 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2026-03-12 Senate Conferees: Perry, Boysko, McDougle
• 2026-03-13 Conference Report released
• 2026-03-13 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A) committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-14 Conference report agreed to by House (65-Y 31-N 0-A) committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB361)
• 2026-03-30 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-30 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB361ER) passage
• 2026-03-30 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-31 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-31 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-31 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-01 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB361)
• 2026-04-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter596 (Effective 7/1/2028) executive-signature
• 2026-04-13 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00ce47e0-75f6-4ec8-a598-ec81f8b4529a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).