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2000 SESSION

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HB 481 Testimony by child victims and witnesses.

Introduced by: Vivian E. Watts | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Testimony by child victims and witnesses. Provides that in any criminal proceeding, including preliminary hearings, involving an alleged offense in which a child is the victim of or witness to a felony or an offense of the laws pertaining to kidnapping, criminal sexual assault or certain family offenses, the testimony of the alleged child victim or child witness may be taken in a room outside the courtroom and be televised by two-way closed-circuit television. This practice is currently limited to child victims of those crimes.

FULL TEXT

• 01/18/00  House: Presented & ordered printed 005185980  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/18/00  House: Presented & ordered printed 005185980
• 01/19/00  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/24/00  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 3
• 02/03/00  House: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (22-Y 1-N)