Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · Bill
HB 1142: Deferred or installment payment agreements; outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs.
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- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
HB 1142 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 14, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Deferred or installment payment agreements; outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs. Primary sponsor: Mike Cherry (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2026): Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Deferred or installment payment agreements; outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs. Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth or the clerk of the circuit court shall not require any defendant sentenced to an active term of incarceration and ordered to pay any fine cost, forfeiture, or penalty related to the charge for which such defendant was incarcerated, or any other chare for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day, the court shall enter such defendant into a deferred payment agreement with a due date set no earlier than 180 days after the defendant's scheduled release from incarceration on the charges for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Cherry | Primary sponsor | Republican | House | 74 |
| Virgil Thornton | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 86 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- Committee substitute printed 26108687D-S1
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1142)
- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Engrossed by House - committee substitute as amended
- committee amendment agreed to
- committee substitute agreed to
- Read second time
- Read first time
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