Virginia House Bill 2276 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 26 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at airports for detecting plastic firearms. Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at airports for detecting plastic firearms. The bill also creates several Class 1 misdemeanors, which are punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful (i) for any person to possess, sell, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, transport, or receive an unfinished frame or receiver or firearm, unless the party possessing or receiving the unfinished frame or receiver or firearm is a federal firearms importer or manufacturer or the unfinished frame or receiver or firearm is imprinted with a serial number issued by a federal firearms importer or manufacturer and (ii) for any person to manufacture, cause to be manufactured, assemble, or cause to be assembled a firearm that is not imprinted with a serial number issued by a federal firearms importer or manufacturer in compliance with all federal laws and regulations regulating the manufacture and import of firearms. The bill creates exceptions for (i) any firearm that has been rendered permanently inoperable, (ii) an antique firearm, or (iii) any firearm or unfinished frame or receiver manufactured before October 22, 1968.

Plastic firearms and unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, sale, transfer, etc., penalty.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]	Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]
Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Eileen Filler-Corn [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]
Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]
Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2021-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-27 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N) (Y: 52 N: 48 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-22 - House - House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 10-N) (Y: 12 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
2021-01-28	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2021-01-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2021-01-27	House	VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
2021-01-27	House	Read third time and passed House (52-Y 48-N)
2021-01-26	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2276H1
2021-01-26	House	Committee substitute agreed to 21103385D-H1
2021-01-26	House	Read second time
2021-01-25	House	Read first time
2021-01-22	House	Committee substitute printed 21103385D-H1
2021-01-22	House	Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
2021-01-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 2-N)
2021-01-18	House	Assigned PS sub: Firearms
2021-01-14	House	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
2021-01-14	House	Presented and ordered printed 21102945D

HB2276 (Carry Over) 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	308.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.5:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB2276
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB2276+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB2276H1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/21103385.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2276F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2276F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2276FH1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2276FH1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H1501V0005+HB2276
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H15V0009+HB2276
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+HV1203+HB2276
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S03V0172+HB2276