HB345:

Robbery; conforms certain provisions of the Code of Virginia to the degrees of robbery offenses.

Bill Summary:

Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code
referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter
534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session
I. These changes include: (i) limiting certain non-robbery crimes for which
committing such crime with the intent to commit a robbery is an element to the
offenses to the two higher degrees of robbery, (ii)
allowing persons convicted of the two lesser degrees of robbery to be eligible
for conditional release if they are terminally ill and for
the enhanced earned sentence credits, (iii) allowing
persons who are ineligible for parole as a result of being convicted of three
certain enumerated offenses to be eligible for parole
if convicted of an offense that would constitute any of the three lesser
degrees of robbery, (iv) limiting the application of
the three-strikes law to the two higher degrees of robbery and making persons
convicted under the three-strikes law eligible for parole if one of the three
convictions resulting in the mandatory life sentence would constitute one of
the two lesser degrees of robbery, and (v) specifying that persons convicted of either of the
two higher degrees of robbery while on administrative furlough or released for
work release are ineligible for further furlough or work release and that
persons convicted of such offenses are ineligible for home/electronic
incarceration. The bill leaves unchanged the current law making all degrees of
robbery predicate criminal acts by adding the two lesser degrees of robbery to
the definition of "predicate criminal act" and adding the two higher
degrees of robbery to the definition of "act of violence."