Virginia House Bill 374 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Exposure to controlled substances; bodily injury to law-enforcement officers, etc.; penalty. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer, firefighter, search and rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel is exposed to a controlled substance while engaged in the performance of his official duties and such exposure causes bodily injury, the person who knowingly or intentionally possessed such controlled substance is guilty of a Class 6 felony. This provision also applies to exposure to a controlled substance by a police animal performing its lawful duties or being kept in a kennel, pen, or stable while off duty.

Controlled substances; exposure, bodily injury to law-enforcement officers, etc., penalty.

Del. David Yancey [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-05	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102005D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	144.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	51.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB374
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB374+hil