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2016 SESSION
HB 517 Warrantless arrest; certain cases.
Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Warrantless arrest; certain cases. Allows a law-enforcement officer to make warrantless arrests for misdemeanors not committed in the officer's presence involving (i) reckless handling of a firearm; (ii) trespass on property where hunting, trapping, or fishing has been prohibited; or (iii) killing deer by use of certain lights when any such arrest is based on probable cause upon personal investigation.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102075D pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16105520D-H1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/09/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102075D
- 01/09/16 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/15/16 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
- 01/27/16 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/03/16 House: Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
- 02/03/16 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/05/16 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 02/10/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 2-N)
- 02/12/16 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 3-N)
- 02/12/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16105520D-H1
- 02/13/16 House: Read first time
- 02/15/16 House: Read second time
- 02/15/16 House: Committee substitute agreed to 16105520D-H1
- 02/15/16 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB517H1
- 02/16/16 House: Read third time and passed House (72-Y 26-N)
- 02/16/16 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (72-Y 26-N)
- 02/17/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/17/16 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/29/16 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N 1-A)