Bill Text: VA SB658 | 2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Physical evidence recovery kits; local and state law-enforcement agencies shall report an inventory.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-04 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) [SB658 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-SB658-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 642 An Act to require law-enforcement agencies to report an inventory of physical evidence recovery kits to the Department of Forensic Science. [S 658] Approved April 4, 2014

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. All local and state law-enforcement agencies shall report an inventory of all physical evidence recovery kits in their custody that may contain biological evidence that were collected but not submitted to the Department of Forensic Science for analysis prior to July 1, 2014. The Department shall establish the form of and timeline for such inventory. The Department shall receive the reports from such law-enforcement agencies and report the results of such inventory to the General Assembly on or before July 1, 2015.

2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2014 by the General Assembly that becomes law.