Virginia House Bill 484 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 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]

Recording custodial interrogations. Provides that any law-enforcement officer shall, if practicable, make an audiovisual recording of any custodial interrogation of a person conducted in a place of detention. The bill provides that the failure to make such a recording does not affect the admissibility of statements made during the custodial interrogation, but the court shall consider or shall instruct the jury to consider such failure in determining the weight given to such evidence. The bill also requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish, publish, and disseminate a model policy or guideline for law-enforcement personnel for the recording of custodial interrogations.

Custodial interrogations; recording by law-enforcement officer.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2016-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102193D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	390.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB484
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB484+hil