Virginia House Bill 657 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Testimony using two-way closed-circuit television; certain offenses. Permits a victim of kidnapping, criminal sexual assault, or family offenses to testify via two-way closed-circuit television if the court finds that the victim is unable to testify in open court because he will suffer severe emotional trauma. Currently, only child victims who are under 16 years old at the time of trial and who were under 14 years old at the time of the offense and child witnesses who are under 14 years old at the time of trial may testify in this manner.

Victims of crime; testimony using two-way closed-circuit television for certain offenses.

Del. Robert Bell [R]

2014-02-03 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 4-N) (Y: 5 N: 4 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2014-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 4-N)
2014-01-10	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2014-01-07	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14100841D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	67.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	11.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB657
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB657+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H0801V0099+HB0657