Earned sentence credits; rate at which sentence rates may be earned, prerequisites.
Summary
Earned sentence credits; revocation of suspended sentence. Clarifies that sentences for certain crimes that as of July 1, 2022, will be subject to a maximum of 4.5 earned sentence credits for each 30 days served include a suspended sentence that is revoked for any such crime. This bill is declarative of existing law.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Mar 2021
Introduced Jan 11, 2021
Signed Mar 25, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 15, 2021 · House of Delegates Feb 3, 2021
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 15, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
8
Committee
6
Amendments
1
Mar 25, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 16, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 15, 2021
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (33-0)
senate
Feb 12, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 4, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
upper
Feb 3, 2021
Lower · Passed
Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
lower
Feb 2, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB2010E
lower
Feb 2, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Jan 29, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 21, 2021
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102110D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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