Virginia House Bill 489 (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]

Sexual assault evidence collection and storage. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to establish training standards and a model policy for law-enforcement personnel involved in sexual assault investigations for the collection and storage of evidence, including the collection and storage of evidence from physical evidence recovery kits in restricted reporting sexual assault investigations. The bill also requires the Department of State Police, local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments to collect and store any evidence obtained in sexual assault investigations, including physical evidence recovery kits in accordance with the model policy developed by the Department.

Sexual assault evidence; collection and storage.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-20	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 16102732D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	1	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	1301	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB489
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB489+hil