Virginia House Bill 620 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Limitation of prosecutions; certain felonies. Provides that felony violations of ?§3.2-6570 (animal cruelty) and 18.2-386.1 (unlawful filming) are not subject to any statute of limitations on prosecution. With few exceptions, felonies are not subject to any statute of limitations. However, currently, both misdemeanor and felony violations of unlawful filming are subject to a five-year statute of limitations and certain felony and misdemeanor violations of animal cruelty are subject to a five-year statute of limitations, or a one-year statute of limitations if the offense involved an agricultural animal, while certain other felony violations of animal cruelty are not subject to any statute of limitations and certain other misdemeanor violations of animal cruelty are subject to the one-year statute of limitations that applies to most misdemeanors.

Prosecutions, limitation of; certain felonies.

Del. Robert Bell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104741D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB620
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB620+hil