HB640
Wrongful incarceration; compensation.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
April 4, 2024
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396)
Chief Patron:
Rip Sullivan (D)
Session:
2024 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Wrongful incarceration; compensation.
Provides that any person who is convicted of a felony by a county or city circuit court of the Commonwealth and is wrongfully incarcerated for such felony shall receive, in addition to the compensation for wrongful incarceration specified under current law, not less than $30,000 for each year or fraction ... (More) thereof (i) of imprisonment after being sentenced to death or (ii) that such person was required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The bill further requires that the amount paid to the person wrongfully incarcerated shall be in the form of a lump sum; under current law, only the initial 25 percent of an award is required to be paid in lump sum form. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2024 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104713D
- 01/09/2024 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/18/2024 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 01/19/2024 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/19/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/2024 - House: Committee substitute printed 24105718D-H1
- 01/26/2024 - House: Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
- 01/26/2024 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/29/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB640H1)
- 01/29/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2024 - House: Committee substitute printed 24106444D-H2
- 01/31/2024 - House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB640H2)
- 02/02/2024 - House: Read first time
- 02/05/2024 - House: Read second time
- 02/05/2024 - House: Committee substitute from the Courts of Justice rejected 24105718D-H1
- 02/05/2024 - House: Committee substitute from Appropriations agreed to 24106444D-H2
- 02/05/2024 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB640H2
- 02/06/2024 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2024 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/19/2024 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2024 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/28/2024 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/2024 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/01/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2024 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2024 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB640ER)
- 03/07/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB640ER)
- 03/07/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2024 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/04/2024 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 396 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/04/2024 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396)
