VA SB1508 | 2019 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-06 - Left in Finance
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-06 - Left in Finance
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Obstruction of justice; concealing evidence of an abduction; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person with actual knowledge of the commission by another of any felony offense to knowingly and willfully make any materially false statement or representation to a law-enforcement officer regarding the location or whereabouts of such other person with the intent to delay, impede, obstruct, prevent, or hinder the investigation, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of any person regarding such offense when such other person is named in an active felony warrant of arrest under the laws of the Commonwealth or of any other state, the District of Columbia, or the United States or any territory. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony for any person with actual knowledge of (i) a person enticing a child to enter any vehicle, room, house, or other place for purposes of taking indecent liberties with such child or (ii) an abduction of a child under 16 for prostitution or to manufacture child pornography to willfully conceal, alter, dismember, or destroy any item of physical evidence or knowingly and willfully make any materially false statement or representation to a law-enforcement officer with the intent to delay, impede, obstruct, prevent, or hinder the investigation, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of any person regarding such offenses.
Title
Obstruction of justice; concealing evidence of an abduction, penalty.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2019-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-06 | Senate | Left in Finance |
| 2019-01-23 | Senate | Rereferred to Finance |
| 2019-01-23 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 19105750D-S1 |
| 2019-01-23 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2019-01-08 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2019-01-08 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100937D |
