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Richmond Sunlight » 2016 » Grand larceny; threshold. (HB396)
Grand larceny; threshold. (HB396)
Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the classification of certain property crimes. Amends § 18.2-102, § 18.2-103, § 18.2-108.01, § 18.2-145.1, § 18.2-150, § 18.2-152.3, § 18.2-162, § 18.2-181, § 18.2-181.1, § 18.2-182, § 18.2-186, § 18.2-186.3, § 18.2-187.1, § 18.2-188, § 18.2-195, § 18.2-195.2, § 18.2-197, § 18.2-23, § 18.2-340.37, § 18.2-80, § 18.2-81, § 18.2-97, § 19.2-289, § 19.2-290, § 19.2-386.16, § 19.2-95, § 29.1-553, of the Code of Virginia. Read the Bill »
01/06/2016 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101944D
The following bills are identical to this one: SB23.
This will not be a high enough threshhold.
Since 1980, when the threshold was raised from $100 to $200, theft of property valued at $200 or more has been grand larceny, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. This is the lowest larceny threshold in the United States. If the 1980 threshold were adjusted for inflation, it would be approximately $575 today. Virginia's low larceny threshold results in unnecessary felony convictions. The ACLU of Virginia supports legislation to raise the larceny threshold. Though an increase to $500 is an improvement, it does not even get Virginia back to 1980 levels. The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports an increase in the larceny threshold to $1500.