Grand larceny; increases threshold amount. (HB17)
Introduced By
Del. Patrick Hope (D-Arlington) with support from 20 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:
Those copatrons are Del. Dawn Adams (D-Richmond), Del. Hala Ayala (D-Woodbridge), Del. Betsy Carr (D-Richmond), Del. Lee Carter (D-Manassas), Del. Karrie Delaney (D-Centreville), Del. Kelly Fowler (D-Virginia Beach), Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Dale City), Del. Steve Heretick (D-Portsmouth), Del. Charniele Herring (D-Alexandria), Del. Jay Jones (D-Norfolk), Del. Kaye Kory (D-Falls Church), Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria), Del. Joe Lindsey (D-Norfolk), Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington), Del. Ken Plum (D-Reston), Del. Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke), Del. Debra Rodman (D-Henrico), Del. Marcus Simon (D-Falls Church), Del. Roslyn Tyler (D-Jarratt), Sen. Jennifer Boysko (D-Herndon)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the classification of certain property crimes. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 11/20/2017 | Committee |
| 11/20/2017 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100443D |
| 11/20/2017 | Referred to Committee on Rules |
| 01/17/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (HB17) |
| 02/01/2018 | Referred from Rules |
| 02/01/2018 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 02/12/2018 | Left in Courts of Justice |
Comments
The Effects of Changing Felony Theft Thresholds
More evidence that higher values have not led to increased property crime or larceny rates http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2017/04/the-effects-of-changing-felony-theft-thresholds
The absurdly low threshold for this felony leads to an over-criminalization of essentially petty thefts. Therefore, not only should it pass, the threshold could be raised even higher due to inflation. MDP
This is an extremely important bill. The threshold hasn't been changed since 1980 and is the lowest in the country.
The ACLU of VA supports increasing the Felony Larceny threshold to $1,500. While this bill is a step in the right direction, increasing it to $500 does not even keep up with inflation, which would put the threshold closer to $600 compared to 1980s dollar amount (which is the last time the threshold was increased)
Shouldn't it be automatically increased to be tied to future inflation?