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type: "Bill"
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title: "Court fines and costs; community service."
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description: "Requires a court assessing fines and costs against a person for conviction of a crime to inform such person of the availability of earning credit toward discharge of the fine or costs through the performance of community service and provide such person with written notice of terms and conditions of the community service program."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "HB 202"
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citation: "Virginia HB 202 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Criminal Procedure"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Michael P. Mullin"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-12-28"
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last_action: "2018-03-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44bfbc4e-5fd4-4f49-a1bd-79f71d63ee44"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB202"
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source_hash: "dbe7ca233544acaa26e0d3eddcd4c7725cfd274a9db682e70d0812faea4a62af"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 202 (2018) — Court fines and costs; community service.
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Requires a court assessing fines and costs against a person for conviction of a crime to inform such person of the availability of earning credit toward discharge of the fine or costs through the performance of community service and provide such person with written notice of terms and conditions of the community service program.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB202ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB202ER)
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2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101353D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB202)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **34–6** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **9–4** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Michael P. Mullin — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101353D `introduction`
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- **2017-12-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-01** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-02-08** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2018-02-09** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y -0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2018-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2018-02-12** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
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- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
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- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
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- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 61 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44bfbc4e-5fd4-4f49-a1bd-79f71d63ee44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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