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2023 SESSION
HB 2150 Trace evidence collection kit; collection, retention, and storage of kits, effective date.
Introduced by: Karrie K. Delaney | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Trace evidence collection kit. Provides for the collection, retention, and storage of a trace evidence collection kit or anonymous trace evidence collection kit, defined in the bill, collected as part of a forensic medical examination of a victim of strangulation, with some procedures that parallel existing procedures for the collection, retention, and storage of physical evidence recovery kits collected for victims of sexual assault. The bill requires the Commonwealth to pay all medical fees relating to the collection of a trace evidence collection kit and does not require victims complaining of strangulation to participate in the criminal justice system or cooperate with law-enforcement authorities in order to be provided with such forensic medical examination. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104237D pdf | impact statement
- 01/27/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105674D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2150ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/23/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104237D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/19/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/23/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/23 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/27/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105674D-H1
- 01/27/23 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/27/23 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 01/30/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/23 House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/23 House: Read first time
- 02/02/23 House: Read second time
- 02/02/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23105674D-H1
- 02/02/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2150H1
- 02/03/23 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/13/23 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/15/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/23 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/23 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/23 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2150ER)
- 02/22/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/23/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 312 (effective 7/1/25)
- 03/23/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312)