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Home/electronic incarceration program. Provides that any court having jurisdiction for the trial of a pregnant person or a postpartum person who still has contact with their infant child and is charged with certain offenses shall assign the offender to a home/electronic incarceration program unless there is probable cause to believe that (i) the offender will not appear for trial or hearing or at such other time and place as may be directed or (ii) the offender's liberty will constitute an unreasonable danger to such person, such person's family or household members, or the public. The bill also provides that a pregnant or postpartum person assigned to home/electronic incarceration shall remain eligible for bond.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 9 co
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB857)
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB857ER)
Signed by President
Enrolled
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read third time
Rules suspended
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (11-Y 0-N 4-A)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB857)
Read third time and passed House (93-Y 5-N 0-A)
committee substitute agreed to
Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
Read second time
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 26106580D-H1
Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
House subcommittee offered
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
Assigned Public Safety sub: Subcommittee #2
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105120D
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Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Jackie H. Glass
Michelle Lopes Maldonado
Delores L. McQuinn
Marcia S. "Cia" Price
Holly M. Seibold
Kathy K.L. Tran
Jeion A. Ward
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker