Bill Text: VA HB1947 | 2019 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Elementary or secondary school, private or public; threats to bomb/damage, false info as to danger.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-02-18 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N) [HB1947 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-HB1947-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §18.2-83 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§18.2-83. Threats to bomb or damage buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue.
A. Any person (a) (i) who makes and communicates
to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy,
or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building,
or other structure, or any means of transportation, or (b) (ii) who communicates to
another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the
existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction,
or damage to any such place of assembly, building,
or other structure, or any means of transportation, shall
be is
guilty of a Class 5 felony;, provided, however, that if
such person be is under fifteen 15 years of age, he shall be is
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
B. If any person commits a violation of this section by communicating to another a threat or information concerning a private or public elementary or secondary school, the sentence imposed shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, 30 days of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of confinement.
C. A violation of this section may be prosecuted either in the jurisdiction from which the communication was made or in the jurisdiction where the communication was received.
2. That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment or commitment. Pursuant to §30-19.1:4 of the Code of Virginia, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is $0 for periods of imprisonment in state adult correctional facilities and cannot be determined for periods of commitment to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
