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2023 SESSION

House Bill with Senate Amendments

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H.B. 2129. A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-67.9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to testimony by child victims and witnesses using two-way closed-circuit television; standard. 23105150D

• 02/15/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23107007D-S1
• 01/27/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105150D-H1
• 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103472D

Patrons--Delaney, Adams, D.M., Anderson, Clark, Guzman, Jenkins, Maldonado, Price, Rasoul, Roem, Shin, Simonds, Subramanyam and Williams Graves

Passed the House of Delegates February 3, 2023 (99-Y 0-N)

Passed the Senate with substitute with amendments February 23, 2023 (39-Y 0-N)

AMENDMENT(S) PROPOSED BY THE SENATE TO THE SENATE SUBSTITUTE

FINANCE AND APPROPRIATIONS

1. After line 44, substitute

insert

2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2023 by the General Assembly that becomes law.

 

SEN. SUROVELL

2. Line 29, substitute

strike

all of lines 29-31

insert

3. The substantial likelihood, based upon expert opinion testimony, that the child will suffer severe emotional trauma from so testifying.