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HB17Introduced in the House of Delegates

Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection, responsibility for collections.

Passed

Introduced by Marcia Price, District 85

What does this bill do?

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Official description

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.

Where it stands

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355)

April 8, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

6 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

4 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Senate substitute agreed to by House (65-Y 33-N 0-A) · March 6, 2026

65

Yes

33

No

1

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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See how each delegate voted

DelegateDistrictVote
Patrick Hope1Yes
Adele McClure2Yes
Alfonso Lopez3Yes
Charniele Herring4Yes
Kirk McPike5Yes
Richard Sullivan6Yes
Karen Keys-Gamarra7Yes
Irene Shin8Yes
Karrie Delaney9Yes
Dan Helmer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102055D

  2. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

  3. Assigned HCJ sub: Criminal

  4. House subcommittee offered

  5. Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N)

  6. Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (16-Y 4-N)

  7. Assigned HAPP sub: General Government and Capital Outlay

  8. Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)

  9. Reported from Appropriations (17-Y 5-N)

  10. Read first time

  11. Read second time

  12. committee amendments agreed to

  13. Engrossed by House as amended

  14. Read third time and passed House (66-Y 32-N 0-A)

  15. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB17)

  16. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

  17. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

  18. Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)

  19. Committee substitute printed 26108696D-S1

  20. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB17)

  21. Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (10-Y 5-N)

  22. Rules suspended

  23. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  24. Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

  25. Committee substitute printed 26109052D-S2

  26. Read third time

  27. Courts of Justice Substitute rejected

  28. Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to

  29. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute

  30. Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N 0-A)

  31. Senate substitute agreed to by House (65-Y 33-N 0-A)

  32. Enrolled

  33. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB17ER)

  34. Signed by Speaker

  35. Signed by President

  36. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026

  37. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  38. Fiscal Impact statement From DPB (3/26/2026 10:21 am)

  39. Approved by Governor-Chapter355 (Effective 1/1/2027)

  40. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355)

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