Virginia House Bill 1766 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Presence of meth lab in same place as child, mentally incapacitated person, or physically helpless person. Provides that any adult who knowingly allows a child or a mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person to be present in the same dwelling, apartment, unit of a hotel, garage, shed, or vehicle where the components of manufacture or attempted manufacture of methamphetamine are present is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 40 years, five years of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment. Current law provides for enhanced punishment for the manufacture of methamphetamine in the presence of a child and omits the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment.

Meth lab; penalty if present in same place as child, mentally incapacitated person, etc.

Del. Anne Crockett-Stark [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2011-01-11		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-01-11		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11101004D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	248.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB1766
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB1766+hil