Virginia Senate Bill 305 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-05 - Incorporated by Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Custodial interrogations; recording. Provides that any law-enforcement officer shall, if practicable, make an audiovisual recording of any custodial interrogation of a person conducted in a place of detention. The bill provides that if an audiovisual recording is unable to be made, the law-enforcement officer shall make an audio recording of the custodial interrogation. The bill provides that the failure of a law-enforcement officer to make such a recording shall not affect the admissibility of the statements made during the custodial interrogation, but the court or jury may consider such failure in determining the weight given to such evidence. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.

Custodial interrogations; recording by law-enforcement officer, etc.

Sen. William Stanley [R]

2020-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Judiciary (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-05	Senate	Incorporated by Judiciary
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2020-01-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-05	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100960D

SB730 (Similar To) 2020-03-03 - Left in Appropriations

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	390.04	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB305
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB305+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0246+SB0305