HB 100 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case.

Summary

Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case. Allows the court and counsel for either party in a criminal case to (i) ask potential jurors any relevant question to ascertain whether the juror can sit impartially in either the guilt or sentencing phase of the case and (ii) inform any potential juror as to the potential range of punishments to ascertain if the person or juror can sit impartially in the sentencing phase of the case. This bill is identical to SB 325.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Dec 2019

Committee Review

Feb 2020

House of Delegates Passage

Jan 2020

Senate Passage

Feb 2020

Signed into Law

Mar 2020

Introduced Dec 12, 2019 Signed Mar 4, 2020

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 4, 2020

Signed into law

Approved by Governor-Chapter 157 (effective 7/1/20)

executive

Feb 17, 2020

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 17, 2020

Upper · Passed

Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB100S1

upper

Feb 17, 2020

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute agreed to 20108209D-S1

upper

Feb 12, 2020

Upper · Passed

Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 3, 2020

Committee

Referred to Committee on the Judiciary

upper

Jan 31, 2020

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (72-Y 27-N)

lower

Jan 30, 2020

Lower · Passed

Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB100H1

lower

Jan 30, 2020

Lower · Passed

Committee substitute agreed to 20106547D-H1

lower

Jan 27, 2020

Lower · Passed

Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 3-N)

lower

Jan 22, 2020

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N)

lower

Jan 17, 2020

Committee

Assigned Courts sub: Criminal

lower

Dec 12, 2019

Committee

Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

lower

Dec 12, 2019

Introduced

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101375D

lower

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor