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| Bill | Victims of sexual assault; rights of victims, physical evidence recovery kits. | Requires that victims of sexual assault be advised by the investigating law-enforcement agency of their rights regarding physical evidence recovery kits. The bill requires the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services of the Virginia Department of General Services and law-enforcement agencies to store a physical evidence recovery kit for an additional 10 years following a written objection to its destruction from the victim. The bill requires the law-enforcement agency to notify the victim at least 60 days prior to the intended date of destruction of the kit and provides that no victim of sexual assault shall be charged for the cost of collecting or storing a kit. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 2127 | Virginia HB 2127 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 2127 (2017) — Victims of sexual assault; rights of victims, physical evidence recovery kits.
Requires that victims of sexual assault be advised by the investigating law-enforcement agency of their rights regarding physical evidence recovery kits. The bill requires the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services of the Virginia Department of General Services and law-enforcement agencies to store a physical evidence recovery kit for an additional 10 years following a written objection to its destruction from the victim. The bill requires the law-enforcement agency to notify the victim at least 60 days prior to the intended date of destruction of the kit and provides that no victim of sexual assault shall be charged for the cost of collecting or storing a kit.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2127ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104909D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102410D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Mark H. Levine — primary (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102410D
introduction - 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-01-16 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
referral-committee - 2017-01-23 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 2017-01-27 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2017-01-30 Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
referral-committee - 2017-02-04 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-06 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17104909D-H1
- 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2127H1
- 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-02-15 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-20 Enrolled
- 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-21 Signed by President
- 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 535 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/208a4ff7-a9c6-48fa-9865-df3ef5624c71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).