Virginia House Bill 1521 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
Pending: House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Use of body-worn camera system by law enforcement. Provides that any sheriff who is the chief law-enforcement officer of his locality and employs 100 or more deputies, any police force that employs 100 or more officers, and the Superintendent of State Police shall, no later than January 1, 2018, implement and operate a body-worn camera system, which is defined in the bill as an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, and processing audiovisual recordings, including cameras or other devices capable of creating such recordings, that may be worn about the person of a law-enforcement officer. Such a system must comply with the model policy or guideline that will be established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Body-worn camera system; use by law enforcement.

Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
2015-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2015-01-15	House	Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
2015-01-06	House	Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
2015-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102428D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1609.10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	1704.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1521
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1521+hil