VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2005 SESSION

• | print version

HB 2644 Child abuse or neglect; definition.

Introduced by: Robert Hurt | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; definitions.  Eliminates from the definition of "family or household member" language that includes certain in-laws who reside within the same home and replaces that language with "relatives, whether by blood or marriage," who reside within the same home. This definition is also used in sections that: prohibit recruitment of gang members by threats or force; criminalize assault and battery against a family member; criminalize stalking; allow an arrest without a warrant in certain instances when there is an assault and battery against a family member; authorize a court to exclude family members from a dwelling when a order is pending for divorce; and in the unfair insurance trade practices provisions.

FULL TEXT

• 01/12/05  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 056718340  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/12/05  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 056718340
• 01/12/05  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/04/05  House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 1-N)
• 02/05/05  House: Read first time
• 02/07/05  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/08/05  House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (98-Y 0-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
• 02/21/05  Senate: Left in Courts of Justice