HB2263
Death penalty; abolition of current penalty.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Abolition of the death penalty.
Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. The bill provides that no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after its effective date for any violation of law. The bill incorporates HB 1779 and is identical to SB 1165.-
Bill History
- 01/13/2021 - House: Presented and ordered printed 21101951D
- 01/13/2021 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB2263)
- 01/13/2021 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/19/2021 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2263)
- 01/28/2021 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/29/2021 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
- 02/03/2021 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/03/2021 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 6-N)
- 02/03/2021 - House: Committee substitute printed 21104346D-H1
- 02/03/2021 - House: Incorporates HB1779 (Carter)
- 02/03/2021 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB2263H1)
- 02/03/2021 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2021 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2263H1)
- 02/04/2021 - House: Read second time
- 02/04/2021 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 21104346D-H1
- 02/04/2021 - House: Pending question ordered
- 02/04/2021 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2263H1
- 02/05/2021 - House: Pending question ordered
- 02/05/2021 - House: Read third time and passed House (57-Y 41-N)
- 02/05/2021 - House: VOTE: Passage (57-Y 41-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/05/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/2021 - Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/2021 - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2021 - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/10/2021 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/16/2021 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N)
- 02/16/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Floor substitute printed 21200391D-S1 (Stanley)
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2021 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB2263S1)
- 02/19/2021 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/2021 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/2021 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/2021 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/22/2021 - Senate: Substitute by Senator Stanley rejected 21200391D-S1 (18-Y 21-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/22/2021 - Senate: Passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/24/2021 - House: Enrolled
- 02/24/2021 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2263ER)
- 02/24/2021 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/25/2021 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2263ER)
- 02/25/2021 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/26/2021 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
- 02/26/2021 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/24/2021 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 344 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/24/2021 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344)
