Virginia House Bill 156 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on December 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Convicts as witnesses; limitation on impeachment evidence. Limits the introduction as impeachment evidence the fact that a witness has been convicted of a crime if more than 10 years have passed from the date of the conviction or the person's release from incarceration, whichever is later, unless (i) the probative value of the evidence of such conviction substantially outweighs its prejudicial effect and (ii) the party seeking to introduce the fact of the conviction into evidence provides reasonable written notice of the intent to introduce evidence of such conviction.

Convicts as witnesses; limitation on impeachment evidence.

Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]

2018-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 2-N)
2018-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2017-12-20	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-12-20	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102282D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	269	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB156
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB156+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0801V0037+HB0156