ENHANCED EARNED CREDITS BILLS - 2025
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HB1773 Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction while a prisoner.
Introduced by: Scott A. Wyatt [R]
Status: Failed
Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and restricts any person convicted of a felony for an offense that occurred while a prisoner in a local, state, or community correctional facility from receiving any further earned sentence credits.
01/06/2025 Referred to Committee on Public Safety
01/17/2025 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget.
02/05/2025 House: Left in Public Safety
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HB2192 Enhanced earned sentence credits; repeal.
Introduced by: Nicholas J. Freitas [R]
Status: Failed
Enhanced earned sentence credits; repeal. Repeals the four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of enhanced earned sentence credits, allowing only a maximum of 4.5 earned sentence credits for every 30 days served.
01/07/2025 Referred to Committee on Rules
01/22/2025 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2192)
02/04/2025 House: Left in Rules
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SB1071 Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; felony drug offenses.
Introduced by: Mark J. Peake ([R]
View the bill here.
Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; felony drug offenses. Removes any person convicted of a second or subsequent felony drug offense from being eligible to earn enhanced earned sentence credits.
01/07/25 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
01/13/25 Impact statement from VCSC
01/24/2025 Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)
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SB1080 Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses, concurrent and consecutive sentences.
Status: Failed
Introduced by: Mark J. Peake [R]
View the bill here.
Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for certain enumerated offenses. The bill also specifies that the provision in current law providing that a person who has been convicted of certain enumerated offenses may earn a maximum of 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served on any sentence for such offenses also applies to any other sentence that is to be served concurrent with or consecutive to any such sentence. The bill specifies that such provisions shall apply to the sentence of any person convicted of a felony offense committed on or after July 1, 2025, and who is sentenced to serve a term of incarceration in a state or local correctional facility.
01/7/2025 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
01/13/2025 Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1080)
01/24/2025 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)
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SB1080 Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses, concurrent and consecutive sentences.
Introduced by: Mark J. Peake [R]
View the bill here.
Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for certain enumerated offenses. The bill also specifies that the provision in current law providing that a person who has been convicted of certain enumerated offenses may earn a maximum of 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served on any sentence for such offenses also applies to any other sentence that is to be served concurrent with or consecutive to any such sentence. The bill specifies that such provisions shall apply to the sentence of any person convicted of a felony offense committed on or after July 1, 2025, and who is sentenced to serve a term of incarceration in a state or local correctional facility.
01/7/2025 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
1/13/2025 Impact statement from VCSC (SB1080)