Virginia Senate Bill 16 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on November 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-13 - Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (9-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms and certain firearm magazines; penalties. Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation is a Class 6 felony. The bill prohibits a dealer from selling, renting, trading, or transferring from his inventory an assault firearm to any person. The bill also prohibits a person from carrying a shotgun with a magazine that will hold more than seven rounds of the longest ammunition for which it is chambered in a public place; under existing law, this prohibition applies only in certain localities. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to import, sell, barter, or transfer any firearm magazine designed to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

Assault firearms and certain firearm magazines; prohibiting sale, transport, etc., penalties.

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2020-01-13 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-13	Senate	Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (9-Y 0-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2019-11-18	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2019-11-18	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100507D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	278.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	287.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.2:01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.2:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.2:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB16
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB16+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0001+SB0016