Virginia House Bill 1154 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Electronic communications; contents; admissibility. Allows the provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service to verify the authenticity of contents of electronic communications by providing an affidavit from the custodian of the written records and reports (or the person to whom the custodian reports) certifying that they are true and complete and prepared in the regular course of business. The bill would allow the contents of electronic communications to be admissible in evidence as a business record exception to the hearsay rule. Under current law, the contents of the electronic communications are excluded from this process.

Electronic communications; contents; admissibility.

Del. Mark Levine [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2016-01-13	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-13	House	Presented and ordered printed 16104116D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	70.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB1154
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB1154+hil