Virginia House Bill 5134 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on August 25 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Law-enforcement officers; duty to intervene and report unlawful use of force. Requires a law-enforcement officer who witnesses another law-enforcement officer engaging or attempting to engage in the unlawful use of force against another person to intervene, when such intervention is feasible, to end the unlawful use or attempted unlawful use of force or to prevent the further unlawful use of force and to report such incident to his agency. The bill also provides that a law-enforcement officer shall render aid, as circumstances objectively permit, to any person injured as the result of such unlawful use of force. The bill states that, in addition to any other penalty authorized by law, a violation is grounds for disciplinary action against the law-enforcement officer, including dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer of the law-enforcement officer.

Law-enforcement officers; duty to intervene and report unlawful use of force.

Del. Robert Bell [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Kirkland Cox [R]	Del. Carrie Coyner [R]
Del. James Edmunds [R]	Del. Hyland Fowler [R]	Del. Todd Gilbert [R]	Del. James Leftwich [R]
Del. Daniel Marshall [R]	Del. Charles Poindexter [R]	Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]
Del. Tony Wilt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-08-25	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-25	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200073D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1723.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5134
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5134+hil