Virginia Senate Bill 444 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-02-03 - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Destruction of live marijuana plants. Provides that where a seizure of more than 10 suspected live marijuana plants is made in connection with any drug prosecution or investigation, the appropriate law-enforcement agency may retain 10 of the seized plants and destroy the remainder by direction of the chief law-enforcement officer or his designee, without a court order, when: it is not reasonably possible to preserve all of the plants in place or to remove the plants to another location; random and representative samples of the plants to be destroyed are retained for evidentiary purposes; and photographs or video recordings are taken to record the total amount of the suspected marijuana plants seized.

Marijuana plants; destruction thereof if more than 10 is seized in connection with drug prosecution.

Sen. Roscoe Reynolds [D]

2010-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) (Y: 6 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-03		Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N)
2010-01-14		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2010-01-13		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-13		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103575D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	386.24	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+SB444
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+SB444+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+vot+S03V0080+SB0444