Sex offenses; requiring registration.
Summary
Sex offenses requiring registration. Clarifiesthe registration and reregistration obligations imposed upon a personconvicted of a foreign sex offense for the purposes of registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The billalso provides that a person who is required to register may notpetition the circuit court for the removal of his name and all identifyinginformation from the Registry if such person was convicted of twoor more offenses for which registration is required and was at libertybetween such convictions. Under current law, a person does not needto be at liberty between such convictions and would be prohibitedfrom petitioning for removal from the Registry.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Apr 7, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 4, 2020 · House of Delegates Mar 5, 2020
How they voted
22–18
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 4, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
94% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
9
Committee
9
Apr 7, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 826 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House with substitute (54-Y 45-N)
lower
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB492H1
lower
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20109405D-H1
lower
Mar 2, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 7-N)
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Feb 12, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Feb 4, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 3-N)
upper
Jan 8, 2020
Upper · Passed
Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104670D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Scott Surovell
DDemocratic
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