Virginia House Bill 284 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 1 2016 - 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]

Manufacturing, etc., a controlled substance resulting in overdose; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a Schedule I or II controlled substance where the use of such substance results in another person's overdose. The bill provides for an affirmative defense to prosecution for this offense if the offender seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for the other person experiencing the overdose and such person (i) remains at the scene of the overdose or at any location to which the other persons is transported for emergency medical attention until a law-enforcement officer responds to the report of an overdose or, if no law-enforcement officer is present at either the scene or the other location, cooperates with law enforcement; (ii) identifies himself to the responding law-enforcement officer; and (iii) cooperates, upon request, with any criminal investigation reasonably related to the controlled substance that resulted in the overdose.

Controlled substances; manufacturing, etc., resulting in overdose.

Del. Christopher Collins [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-01	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-01	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101274D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	248.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB284
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB284+hil