HB 557 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender; bail bondsmen, increases penalty.

Summary
Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender;bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases to a Class 6 felony from aClass 1 misdemeanor the penalty for an owner or employee of a bailbond company that posted bond for a person to carnally know suchperson if the owner or employee has the authority to revoke the person'sbond.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 6, 2020 Signed Mar 27, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 4, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2020

How they voted

40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 4, 2020
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
19 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
34
Key actions
11
Committee
8
Mar 27, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 4, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 26, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 12, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Jan 6, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 6, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103236D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Emily Jordan
Emily Jordan
RRepublican
VA
17