Virginia House Bill 1979 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Procedure upon arrest for certain drug offenses; Prescription Monitoring Program. Provides that when an officer arrests a person for a drug offense involving a controlled substance, where the dispensing of such substance is required to be reported to the Prescription Monitoring Program, the officer shall cause to be requested from the Program information regarding the identity of the prescriber, if available, unless the officer already knows the identity of the prescriber. The bill also provides that the officer shall cause the prescriber to be notified of the arrest, unless such notification would jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation.

Prescription Monitoring Program; procedure upon arrest for certain drug offenses.

Del. David Ramadan [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2015-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2015-01-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2015-01-13	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100669D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	83.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1979
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1979+hil