Virginia House Bill 656 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 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]

Syringes services program; public health emergency. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to establish a syringe services program and to authorize persons who are not otherwise authorized by law to dispense or distribute hypodermic needles and syringes to dispense or distribute hypodermic needles and syringes in order to control the transmission of disease when the Commissioner has declared a public health emergency and determines it is necessary to protect public health. The bill also provides that a court may, in determining whether an object is drug paraphernalia, consider whether possession or distribution of the object is part of participation in such a syringe services program.

Syringes services program; public health emergency.

Del. John O'Bannon [R]

2016-01-26 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 24 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-26	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2016-01-26	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-26	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
2016-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2016-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101991D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	265.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	45.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3467	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB656
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB656+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H12V0038+HB0656