Sexually violent predators; Director of DOC shall develop protocol for assessing prisoner, etc. (HB1271)
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Description
Punishment and civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Imposes a mandatory minimum life sentence for the sexually violent offenses of rape, forcible sodomy, and object sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13. The bill also eliminates the use of the Static-99 assessment instrument for evaluating whether a prisoner convicted of a sexually violent offense or an unrestorably incompetent defendant charged with a sexually violent offense should be civilly committed. Instead, the Director of the Department of Corrections, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, shall develop an assessment protocol to determine whether the prisoner or defendant meets the definition of a sexually violent predator. The bill also increases from 120 to 180 days the length of time the Commitment Review Committee has to complete its assessment of the prisoner or defendant for civil commitment and communicate its recommendation to the Attorney General. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/20/2012 | Committee |
01/20/2012 | Presented and ordered printed 12104109D |
01/20/2012 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
01/23/2012 | Impact statement from VCSC (HB1271) |
01/24/2012 | Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal |
02/08/2012 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) |
02/10/2012 | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/10/2012 | Committee substitute printed 12105221D-H1 |
02/12/2012 | Read first time |
02/13/2012 | Impact statement from VCSC (HB1271H1) |
02/13/2012 | Read second time |
02/13/2012 | Committee substitute agreed to 12105221D-H1 |
02/13/2012 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1271H1 |
02/14/2012 | Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) |
02/14/2012 | VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/15/2012 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/15/2012 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
02/27/2012 | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
02/27/2012 | Committee substitute printed 12105686D-S1 |
02/27/2012 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1271H1) |
02/28/2012 | Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/29/2012 | Read third time |
02/29/2012 | Reading of substitute waived |
02/29/2012 | Committee substitute agreed to 12105686D-S1 |
02/29/2012 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1271S1 |
02/29/2012 | Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 4-N) (see vote tally) |
03/01/2012 | Placed on Calendar |
03/02/2012 | Senate substitute agreed to by House 12105686D-S1 (95-Y 0-N) |
03/02/2012 | VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
03/08/2012 | Enrolled |
03/08/2012 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1271ER) |
03/08/2012 | Signed by Speaker |
03/09/2012 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1271ER) |
03/09/2012 | Signed by President |
04/09/2012 | Governor's recommendation received by House |
04/17/2012 | Placed on Calendar |
04/18/2012 | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 0-N) |
04/18/2012 | VOTE: ADOPTION (91-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
04/18/2012 | Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (36-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
04/18/2012 | G Governor's recommendation adopted |
04/18/2012 | Reenrolled |
04/18/2012 | Reenrolled bill text (HB1271ER2) |
04/18/2012 | Signed by Speaker as reenrolled |
04/18/2012 | Signed by President as reenrolled |
04/18/2012 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 800 (effective 1/1/13) |
04/18/2012 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
Comments
What about the drunk drivers and drug dealers, seems Republicans never seem to write laws to protect kids from these Butchers. I truthfully think republicans are afraid of them, one might even call them cowards.
I don't trust this as what a sexually "violent predator" means in Virginia is a non-violent offender in other states. About 19,000 nonviolent Virginia offenders were judged by legislative fiat to be violent, after the fact, without a re-sentencing hearing or with a Judge in attendence. They over turned the decree of a sitting Judge! That move was purely political. My North Carolina plea bargain, as a non-violent offender, got turned over here in Virginia without a review of the facts of my case, with legal council and I present. Of course, they couldn't DO that, as it would have been illegal as anything to try me twice for the same crime. Yet, they did with regards to my conditions set forth in my plea bargain.
So, I oppose this bill because I don't trust them. Plain and simple. Besides, who is going to pick up this tab for lifetime incarceration? If someone is pathological then they need to be treated and held in a sanitorium for the mentally insane, not a prison.
Jesus treated the "wildman" didn't he? Hello! Anyone read that New Testament story Mark 5: lately? Here's the fun part, after Jesus redeemed the Wildman, the people were afraid. Why? Because their efforts to rescue him failed, and they were ashamed? Or, because they got reminded that they did nothing, and were ashamed? "And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region." You betcha they did ...just His presence reminded them of their lack of moral courage to have done what was kind and just.