Bill Text: VA SB653 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Dangerous weapons; place of religious worship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-17 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N 1-A) [SB653 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-SB653-Prefiled.html
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SENATE BILL NO. 653
Offered January 10, 2018
Prefiled January 10, 2018
A BILL to amend and reenact §18.2-283 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to dangerous weapons; place of religious worship.
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Patron-- McPike
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §18.2-283 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§18.2-283. Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship.
If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason,
to a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at
such place without express
authorization from such place of religious worship, he shall be
is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
