Virginia Senate Bill 1362 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2023 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Resisting detention; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to intentionally prevent or attempt to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully detaining him, defined in the bill as fleeing or attempting to flee from a law-enforcement officer when (i) the officer has legal justification to detain the person, (ii) the officer communicates to the person an order to stop, and (iii) the person refuses to obey the order to stop. The bill allows a person charged with committing this offense to be arrested and immediately brought before a magistrate. The bill requires law enforcement to make a report to the Central Criminal Records Exchange when any person is arrested on such charge. Resisting detention; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to intentionally prevent or attempt to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully detaining him, defined in the bill as fleeing or attempting to flee from a law-enforcement officer when (i) the officer has legal justification to detain the person, (ii) the officer communicates to the person an order to stop, and (iii) the person refuses to obey the order to stop. The bill allows a person charged with committing this offense to be arrested and immediately brought before a magistrate. The bill requires law enforcement to make a report to the Central Criminal Records Exchange when any person is arrested on such charge.

Resisting detention; penalty.

Sen. Thomas Norment [R]

Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]

2023-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N 1-A) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-01	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
2023-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101787D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	460	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	390	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	74	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1362
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1362+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1362F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0141+SB1362