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HB268Introduced in the House of Delegates

Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection, deferred payment agreement.

Engrossed

Introduced by Phil Hernandez, District 94

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 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 the defendant's scheduled release from incarceration on the charges for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day, and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the period of limitations for payment of such fines, costs, forfeitures, or penalties shall start to run on the due date for such deferred payment agreement.The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.

Where it stands

Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

March 3, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

3 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

SenateStage: Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) · March 3, 2026

15

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

15 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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SenatorDistrictVote
Mark Obenshain2Yes
Todd Pillion6Yes
Creigh Deeds11Yes
Lashrecse Aird13Yes
Lamont Bagby14Yes
Louise Lucas18Yes
Aaron Rouse22Yes
Mamie Locke23Yes
Richard Stuart25Yes
Ryan McDougle26Yes

Bill history

  1. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101608D

  2. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

  3. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB268)

  4. Assigned HCJ sub: Criminal

  5. House subcommittee offered

  6. Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)

  7. Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (19-Y 1-N)

  8. Read first time

  9. Read second time

  10. committee amendments agreed to

  11. Engrossed by House as amended

  12. Read third time and passed House (91-Y 7-N 0-A)

  13. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB268)

  14. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

  15. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

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

  17. Committee substitute printed 26108678D-S1

  18. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB268)

  19. Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

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