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2005 SESSION
HB 2288 Criminal investigation; obstruction of justice, penalty.
Introduced by: L. Scott Lingamfelter | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Impeding a criminal investigation; penalty. Provides that any person with actual knowledge of the commission of a felony under Chapter 4 of Title 18.2 (Crimes Against the Person) by another, who willfully conceals, alters, dismembers, or destroys any item of physical evidence with the intent to delay, impede, obstruct, prevent, or hinder the investigation, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of any person regarding such offense, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. This provision does not apply to the victim or the spouse, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, or sibling of the offender.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 055444380 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/05 House: Committee substitute printed 058019380-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/05 Senate: Floor substitute printed 053865820-S1 (Stolle) pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2288ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/29/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 055444380
- 01/11/05 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/02/05 House: Reported from C. J. with substitute (18-Y 2-N)
- 02/02/05 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/03/05 House: Reported from Appropriations with sub (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/05 House: Committee substitute printed 058019380-H1
- 02/05/05 House: Read first time
- 02/07/05 House: Read second time
- 02/07/05 House: Committee substitute agreed to 058019380-H1
- 02/07/05 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2288H1
- 02/08/05 House: Read third time and passed House (94-Y 4-N)
- 02/08/05 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 4-N)
- 02/08/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/05 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/05 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice w/amds (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/05 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/05 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/23/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/05 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/23/05 Senate: Committee amendments rejected
- 02/23/05 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/23/05 Senate: Amendments by Sen. Stolle withdrawn
- 02/23/05 Senate: Floor substitute printed 053865820-S1 (Stolle)
- 02/23/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/23/05 Senate: Substitute by Sen. Stolle agreed to 053865820-S1
- 02/23/05 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute HB2288S1
- 02/23/05 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/24/05 House: Senate substitute rejected by House (4-Y 91-N)
- 02/24/05 House: VOTE: REJECTED (4-Y 91-N)
- 02/24/05 Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/05 Senate: VOTE: INSIST & REQUEST (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/05 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/24/05 House: House acceded to request
- 02/24/05 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/24/05 House: Delegates: Lingamfelter, Albo, Armstrong
- 02/24/05 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/24/05 Senate: Senators: Reynolds, Stolle, Saslaw
- 02/25/05 House: Conference report agreed to by House (87-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/05 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (87-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/05 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/05 Senate: VOTE: CONF. COMMITTEE RPT. (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2288ER)
- 03/09/05 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/21/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 408 (effective 7/1/05)
- 03/29/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408)