Bill Text: VA SB658 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Physical evidence recovery kits; local and state law-enforcement agencies shall report an inventory.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-04 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) [SB658 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-SB658-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 658 Offered January 17, 2014 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 9.1-1101.1, relating to inventory of physical evidence recovery kits. ---------- Patron-- Black ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 9.1-1101.1 as follows:

§9.1-1101.1. Physical evidence recovery kits; inventory.

The Department shall create and maintain an inventory of all physical evidence recovery kits collected by the Department of State Police or a local law-enforcement agency in connection with a criminal investigation that have not been submitted to the Department for analysis prior to July 1, 2014. Arrangements shall be made between the Department and the Department of State Police and local law-enforcement agencies to submit such physical evidence recovery kits to the Department by January 1, 2015.

2. That the Department of Forensic Science shall prescribe the form and manner in which the Department of State Police and local law-enforcement agencies shall submit the information required in the first enactment of this act.

3. That the Department of Forensic Science shall submit a report to the General Assembly summarizing the results of its inventory prior to the 2015 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Such report shall also include a plan for analyzing all physical evidence recovery kits submitted pursuant to the first enactment of this act.