Virginia House Bill 194 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Competency and sanity evaluations; capital murder; audiovisual recording. Requires any evaluator evaluating a defendant's competency to stand trial or sanity to make an audiovisual recording of any interview conducted with a defendant charged with capital murder. The bill provides further that the recording shall be confidential and made available only to any other evaluator appointed by a court or obtained by a defendant for the purposes of evaluating the defendant's competency or sanity.

Competency and sanity evaluations; capital murder, audiovisual recording.

Del. John O'Bannon [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2015-12-27	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-12-27	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100599D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	169.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	169.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB194
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB194+hil