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2020 SESSION
SB 730 Custodial interrogations; recording.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Custodial interrogations; recording. Provides that any law-enforcement officer shall, if practicable, make an audiovisual recording of the entirety of any custodial interrogation of a person conducted in a place of detention. The bill provides that if an audiovisual recording is unable to be made, the law-enforcement officer shall make an audio recording of the custodial interrogation. The bill provides that the failure of a law-enforcement officer to make such a recording shall not affect the admissibility of the statements made during the custodial interrogation, but the court or jury may consider such failure in determining the weight given to such evidence. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference. This bill incorporates SB 305.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101839D pdf | impact statement
- 02/05/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107866D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108511D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101839D
- 01/07/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 0-N 2-A)
- 02/05/20 Senate: Incorporates SB305 (Stanley)
- 02/05/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107866D-S1
- 02/07/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/10/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/10/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20107866D-S1
- 02/10/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB730S1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/20 House: Read first time
- 02/14/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/14/20 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/17/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108511D-H1
- 02/19/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 03/03/20 House: Left in Appropriations