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2013 SESSION
HB 1794 Crime victims or witnesses; nondisclosure of personal and identifying information.
Introduced by: Jackson H. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Nondisclosure of crime victim or witness personal and identifying information. Provides that upon request of any witness in a criminal prosecution for the sale or manufacture of drugs or a violent felony as defined in subsection C of § 17.1-805, or any crime victim, neither a law-enforcement agency, the attorney for the Commonwealth, the counsel for a defendant, a court, nor the Department of Corrections, nor any employee of any of them, may disclose, except among themselves, the residential address, telephone number, or place of employment of the witness or victim or a member of the witness's or victim's family, except to the extent that disclosure is (i) of the site of the crime, (ii) required by law or the Rules of Supreme Court, (iii) necessary for law-enforcement purposes or preparation for court proceedings, or (iv) permitted by the court for good cause. Current law provides this protection to all crime victims but to witnesses only when the prosecutions involve violations of § 18.2-46.2 or 18.2-46.3 (criminal street gang offenses).
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HISTORY
- 01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103459D
- 01/08/13 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/11/13 House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
- 01/14/13 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- 01/16/13 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N)
- 01/18/13 House: Read first time
- 01/21/13 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/22/13 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/13 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/23/13 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/15/13 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)