Virginia Senate Bill 88 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on November 27 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-22 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Discharging firearm; penalty. Imposes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of three years for violations of (i) maliciously discharging a firearm within or at an occupied building or dwelling house; (ii) willfully discharging a firearm within or at any school building, upon the buildings or grounds of any school, or upon any public property within 1,000 feet of the property line of a school; and (iii) intentionally discharging a firearm while in or on a motor vehicle so as to create risk of death or injury to another person. The bill also imposes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of one year for violations of (a) unlawfully, but not maliciously, discharging a firearm within or at an occupied building or dwelling house and (b) willfully discharging a firearm in a public place when such discharge results in bodily injury to another person. The bill imposes a mandatory minimum term of confinement in jail of 90 days for violations of willfully discharging a firearm in a public place when such discharge does not result in bodily injury to another person.

Discharging firearm; penalty.

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]

2020-01-22 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-22	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2019-11-27	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2019-11-27	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101274D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	279	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	280	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	286.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB88
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB88+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0671+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0062+SB0088