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HB 1142STATE · VirginiaIntroduced

Deferred or installment payment agreements; outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs.

Voted 7/21/2026View source

Summary

Deferred or installment payment agreements; outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs. Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth or the clerk of the circuit court shall not require any defendant sentenced to an active term of incarceration and ordered to pay any fine cost, forfeiture, or penalty related to the charge for which such defendant was incarcerated, or any other chare for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day, the court shall enter such  defendant into a deferred payment agreement with a due date set no earlier than 180 days after the defendant's scheduled release from incarceration on the charges for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day.

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Docket history

Action history

  1. 7/21/2026Continued from last session
  2. 3/3/2026Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
  3. 2/27/2026Committee substitute printed 26108687D-S1
  4. 2/25/2026Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  5. 2/23/2026Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1142)
  6. 2/16/2026Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  7. 2/16/2026Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  8. 2/13/2026Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)
  9. 2/12/2026Engrossed by House - committee substitute as amended
  10. 2/12/2026committee amendment agreed to