Bill Text: VA SB159 | 2016 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Campus police departments; retention and storage of physical evidence recovery kits.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice [SB159 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-SB159-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 159 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled December 29, 2015 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23-234.2, relating to campus police departments; retention of physical evidence recovery kits. ---------- Patron-- Favola ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 23-234.2 as follows:

§23-234.2. Retention of physical evidence recovery kits.

Campus police departments shall retain and store physical evidence recovery kits for a minimum of two years in cases where the victim of the sexual assault elects not to report the sexual assault to law enforcement at the time of the collection of such evidence.