Virginia Senate Bill 158 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-01 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Physical evidence recovery kit. Requires the Department of State Police, all police and sheriff's departments, and every campus police department to submit all physical evidence recovery kits that are in their custody on July 1, 2016, and all physical evidence recovery kits that come into their custody after July 1, 2016, to the Department of Forensic Science for analysis. Forensic evidence that does not meet the standards for retention in a state or national data bank shall be returned to the law-enforcement agency that submitted the physical evidence recovery kit, which shall store such kit whether or not the victim has reported the sexual assault to law enforcement.

Sexual assault investigations; collection and storage of evidence.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

Sen. Mamie Locke [D]

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-01	Senate	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2015-12-29	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-12-29	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101390D

SB291 (Similar To) 2016-03-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	1	1301	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB158
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB158+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S03V0147+SB0158