Virginia House Bill 596 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
Pending: House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms magazines; fine. Provides that any person, corporation, or other entity that manufactures, imports, possesses, purchases, sells, or transfers any large capacity magazine shall be subject to a $500 fine. The bill provides exceptions to the prohibition. The bill provides that a registrant is limited to three large capacity magazines and must otherwise dispose of all magazines in excess of the limit. The bill requires the Department of State Police to provide a means to register a large capacity magazine and, at the time of registration, to permanently mark such magazine for the purpose of identification and maintain records regarding such identification information. Finally, the bill provides that any large capacity magazine that is possessed in violation of law is subject to forfeiture to the Commonwealth.

Firearm magazines; prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., fine.

Del. Betsy Carr [D]

2018-01-25 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
2018-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (4-Y 2-N)
2018-01-15	House	Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #1
2018-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
2018-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101660D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	309.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	386.29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB596
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB596+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1501V0010+HB0596