Virginia House Bill 1286 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Restrictions on issuance of process of arrest by a magistrate. Provides that a magistrate may not issue an arrest warrant for a felony offense upon the basis of a complaint by a person other than a law-enforcement officer without prior authorization by the attorney for the Commonwealth or, if no attorney for the Commonwealth is available, without prior authorization by a law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the alleged offense. Current law requires only consultation with the attorney for the Commonwealth or, if he is unavailable, consultation with the law-enforcement agency.

Magistrate; may issue arrest warrants for a felony only if complaint by law-enforcement officer.

Del. Robin Abbott [D]	Del. Mamye BaCote [D]	Del. Todd Gilbert [R]	Del. Paula Miller [D]
Del. Jeion Ward [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2010-02-08		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2010-01-25		House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2010-01-21		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-21		House: Presented and ordered printed 10104087D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	71	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB1286
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB1286+hil