HB 2413 Virginia House of Delegates · 2019 Regular Session

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; secrecy of information.

Summary
Provides that any person granted permission to make notes and to duplicate portions of the evidence given before the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall maintain the secrecy of all information obtained from a review or duplication of the evidence presented to the multi-jurisdiction grand jury, except for disclosure as he deems necessary for use in a criminal investigation or proceeding. The bill also provides that after a person has been indicted by a grand jury, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall notify such person that the multi-jurisdiction grand jury was used to obtain evidence for a prosecution. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Jan 8, 2019 Signed Mar 18, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 12, 2019

How they voted

340
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 12, 2019
D Democratic14
14 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican20
20 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Amendments
2
Mar 18, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 522 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 18, 2019
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 14, 2019
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 13, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 12, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102055D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Les Adams
Les Adams
RRepublican
VA
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