HB726
Credit for time spent in confinement while awaiting trial; extradition or fugitive warrant.
Status:
In Senate
Latest Action:
Jan. 30, 2026
Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Chief Patron:
Will Davis (R)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Credit for time spent in confinement while awaiting trial; extradition or fugitive warrant.
Provides that if any person is extradited from another state pursuant to (i) an extradition warrant from the Commonwealth or (ii) a fugitive warrant issued from the state where such person is detained and such person is subsequently sentenced to a term of confinement in a correctional facility in the ... (More) Commonwealth for an offense from the same act as the violation for which the extradition warrant or fugitive warrant was authorized, such person shall have deducted from any such term all time actually spent in confinement awaiting extradition from such other state, provided that he was solely held on the extradition warrant or fugitive warrant and not on any other offense that he allegedly committed in such other state. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103401D
- 01/13/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/20/2026 - House: Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/22/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/2026 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/23/2026 - House: Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB726)
- 01/27/2026 - House: Read first time
- 01/28/2026 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/29/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 01/30/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 01/30/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
