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SB730

Custodial interrogations; recording.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Jennifer McClellan (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Custodial interrogations; recording.

Provides that any law-enforcement officer shall, if practicable, make an audiovisual recording of the entirety 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. As introduced this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference. This bill incorporates SB 305. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/07/2020 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101839D
  • 01/07/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
  • 02/05/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB730)
  • 02/05/2020 - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 0-N 2-A)
  • 02/05/2020 - Senate: Incorporates SB305 (Stanley)
  • 02/05/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107866D-S1
  • 02/07/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
  • 02/07/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB730S1)
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Read second time
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20107866D-S1
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB730S1
  • 02/11/2020 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/14/2020 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/14/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/14/2020 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 02/14/2020 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
  • 02/17/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
  • 02/19/2020 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
  • 02/19/2020 - House: Committee substitute printed 20108511D-H1
  • 02/19/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  • 02/20/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB730H1)
  • 03/03/2020 - House: Left in Appropriations

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