HB1241: Credit card theft; person who uses, possesses, etc. card of another without cardholder's consent.

Chief Patron

Brian Moran (D-46)
Alexandria, VA
Served: 1996–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate
	Signed by Governor
	Became Law

Status

04/02/2008: signed by governor

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01/09/2008 Committee
01/09/2008 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088382648
01/09/2008 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/10/2008 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1241)
01/16/2008 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
02/01/2008 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/05/2008 Read first time
02/06/2008 Read second time
02/06/2008 Committee amendment agreed to
02/06/2008 Amendment by Delegate Moran agreed to
02/06/2008 Engrossed by House as amended HB1241E
02/06/2008 Printed as engrossed 088382648-E
02/07/2008 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/07/2008 VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/07/2008 Communicated to Senate
02/08/2008 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1241E)
02/08/2008 Constitutional reading dispensed
02/08/2008 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
02/12/2008 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
02/25/2008 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/25/2008 Committee substitute printed 081572648-S1
02/26/2008 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/27/2008 Read third time
02/27/2008 Reading of substitute waived
02/27/2008 Committee substitute agreed to 081572648-S1
02/27/2008 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1241S1
02/27/2008 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/28/2008 Placed on Calendar
02/29/2008 Senate substitute rejected by House (1-Y 96-N)
02/29/2008 VOTE: --- REJECTED (1-Y 96-N) (see vote tally)
03/04/2008 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/04/2008 Senate requested conference committee
03/05/2008 House acceded to request
03/05/2008 Conferees appointed by House
03/05/2008 Delegates: Moran, Janis, Bell
03/06/2008 Conferees appointed by Senate
03/06/2008 Senators: Whipple, Locke, Quayle
03/08/2008 Conference report agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
03/08/2008 VOTE: --- ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/08/2008 Reading of conference report waived
03/08/2008 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/24/2008 Enrolled
03/24/2008 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1241ER)
03/24/2008 Signed by Speaker
03/26/2008 Signed by President
04/02/2008 G Approved by Governor-Chapter 797 (effective 7/1/08)

Summary

Elements of credit card theft. Provides that a person who possesses a credit card of another, when he took, obtained or withheld from another person, possession, custody or control of the card without the cardholder's consent, is guilty of credit card theft. This punishes possession of a stolen credit card as theft of a credit card and responds to the holding in Meeks v. Commonwealth, Record No. 062452, (Virginia Supreme Court, Nov. 2, 2007) in which it was held that a person who took a credit card in Fairfax County could not be prosecuted for credit card theft in Arlington.

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