Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties.
It became law on Mar 24, 2025.
- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 37
- Latest action
- Mar 24, 2025
What it does
Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation or (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, discharging of a firearm within or at, or damage to any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation is guilty of a Class 5 felony, provided, however, that if…
Where it stands
This bill passed and is now law.
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Jason Ballard
- A.C. Cordoza
- Amanda Batten
- Anne Ferrell Tata
- Baxter Ennis
- Bill Wiley
- Bobby Orrock
- Buddy Fowler
- Chad Green
- Chris Obenshain
- Chris Runion
- David Owen
- Delores Oates
- Ellen McLaughlin
- Eric Phillips
- Geary Higgins
- Hillary Pugh Kent
- Ian Lovejoy
- Israel O'Quinn
- Jay Leftwich
- Jed Arnold
- Keith Hodges
- Kim Taylor
- Mark Earley
- Mike Cherry
- Mike Webert
- Otto Wachsmann
- Paul Milde
- Scott Wyatt
- Terry Austin
- Terry Kilgore
- Tom Garrett
- Tony Wilt
- Wendell Walker
- Will Davis
- Will Morefield
- Wren Williams
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Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in Virginia.