Virginia House Bill 1087 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Drug Recognition Experts. Provides that in any trial for a violation of Article 1 (§18.2-247 et seq.) of Chapter 7 of Title 18.2 (drug offenses) involving cocaine or heroin, any law-enforcement officer shall be permitted to testify as to the results of any field test approved as accurate and reliable by the Department of Forensic Science regarding whether or not any substance, the identity of which is at issue, is cocaine or heroin and provides that any law-enforcement officer who performs drug field tests shall be trained as a Drug Recognition Expert by the Department of Forensic Science.

Drug recognition experts; law-enforcement officer be trained by Department of Forensic Science.

Del. Anne Crockett-Stark [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2010-01-25		House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote
2010-01-19		House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2010-01-13		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-13		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10102493D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	188.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB1087
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB1087+hil