HB 17 — Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection, responsibility for collections.
VA 20261 session
Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition of such penalty if imposed by a circuit court or within 30 years if imposed by a general district court to within 10 years from the date of the judgment whether imposed by a circuit court or general district court. The bill provides that upon the expiration of the period of limitations, no action shall be brought to collect the debt. The bill extends the time period for commencing collection activity from 90 days to 180 days after judgment, but provides that no collection activity shall be commenced while a defendant is incarcerated on an active term of imprisonment and subject to a deferred payment agreement. The bill also provides that for any defendant sentenced to an active term of incarceration and ordered to pay any fine, cost, forfeiture, or penalty related to the charge that such defendant is incarcerated for, or any other charge for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day, the court shall enter such defendant into a deferred payment agreement for such fines, costs, forfeitures, or penalties. The bill requires the due date for such deferred payment agreement to be set no earlier than 180 days after the defendant's scheduled release from incarceration on the charge for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day. This bill is identical to SB 180. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (18)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, VA) — sponsor
- Jessica L. Anderson (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Bonita G. Anthony (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Alex Q. Askew (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Katrina Callsen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Stacey Annie Carroll (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nadarius E. Clark (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Laura Jane Cohen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nicole Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rae Cousins (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michael B. Feggans (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Lily V. Franklin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jackie H. Glass (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Sam Rasoul (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Charlie Schmidt (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (44)
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Alex Q. Askew (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Bonita G. Anthony (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Charlie Schmidt (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Jessica L. Anderson (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Laura Jane Cohen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Lily V. Franklin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Michael B. Feggans (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Rae Cousins (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 17 | Sam Rasoul (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 18 | Stacey Annie Carroll (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no