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Crimes and Offenses Generally

P Passed

P HB78
Crimes; unlawful communication with prisoner. Makes changes in language defining the term "prisoners" so that the term is used consistently in Code provisions that prohibit unlawful communications with and delivery of certain items to prisoners.
Patron - Landes

P HB141
Infected sexual battery. Creates the Class 6 felony of infected sexual battery when the offender has intimate sexual contact with someone knowing he is infected with HIV, Syphilis or Hepatitis B with the intent to transmit the infection to another person.
Patron - McClure

P HB169
Sexual Battery. Provides that the definition of sexual abuse in § 18.2-67.10 applies to the sexual battery section.
Patron - Phillips

P HB198
Use of explosives; issuance of permits; penalty. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to consider all permit applications for manufacturing, storing, handling, using or selling explosives, including a background examination to include a criminal history record information check including all applicants and those designated persons representing corporate applicants. The bill also (i) requires the Board to deny a permit application of anyone convicted of a felony in Virginia, any other state, the District of Columbia, or the United States, unless the civil rights of the applicant have been restored; (ii) exempts from the permit requirements those persons holding a permit under Virginia mining laws; and (iii) requires the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, to study application of this law to coal and mineral mining industries.
Patron - Sherwood

P HB202
Comprehensive Community Corrections Act for Local Responsible Offenders. Defines local services as community-based probation and requires localities to adopt local community criminal justice boards, which include local officials (e.g., city manager, county administrator), and makes mandatory the service of those officials already appointed to these boards. The bill expands the options for removal of an offender for intractable behavior. The bill also limits participation to misdemeanants and those not charged with a violent felony. Allows expungement of a first offense of assault and battery against a household member.
Patron - Almand

P HB280
Possession of the date rape drug GHB; penalty. Provides that the manufacture, sale, distribution or possession of GHB (the substances gamma-butyrolactone and 1, 4, butanediol) intended for human consumption is a Class 3 felony. The bill also adds these substances to the Drug Control Act.
Patron - Suit

P HB297
Assault of law-enforcement officers. Specifies the inclusion of jail officers in local correctional facilities, game wardens and deputy sheriffs among those officers included in the code provisions giving enhanced punishment for the assault of law-enforcement officers.
Patron - Landes

P HB309
Criminal background check required for employees of a gun dealer to transfer firearms; penalty. Requires any person who sells firearms at a licensed dealership or at a gun show to submit to a national criminal history records check. The bill prohibits such person from selling firearms if they would be prohibited from the possession of a firearm. Penalties for a violation of the section include: a Class 5 felony for any employee who makes a false statement on the application for the criminal history records check and a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who offers for transfer any firearm in violation of the section.
Patron - Watts

P HB373
Identity fraud. Establishes the offense of identity fraud as the intent to unlawfully and without permission appropriate the identity of another person. A violation is a Class 1 misdemeanor. If the violation results in a loss of greater than $200, if it is a second or subsequent conviction, or if the violator avoids arrest and his actions in violation of the section result in the arrest and detention of the other person, it is a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Byron

P HB378
Abuse and neglect of incapacitated adults; penalty. Amends the definition of abuse to remove "malicious conduct" and include "knowing and willful conduct." The bill provides that neglect must be knowing as well as willful. The bill expands the exemptions to abusive or neglectful conduct to exclude bona fide, recognized or approved medical care practices and conduct incident to necessary movement, placement, or protection from harm of the incapacitated adult.
Patron - Drake

P HB383
SABRE: Substance Abuse Reduction Effort. Creates an omnibus drug statute reform. The bill requires juveniles found delinquent and adults found guilty for a first drug offense be subject to periodic substance abuse testing, drug treatment and education. The bill mandates six months extra time on a felony sentence if the mandatory drug assessment indicates a substance abuse problem. The bill establishes quantities of certain controlled substances for which an offense of possession with intent to distribute penalizes the offender with a $1,000,000 fine and imprisonment for a period of 20 years to life, 20 years of which is a minimum, mandatory term. Those substances and quantities are: one or more kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of heroin, five or more kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, 2.5 or more kilograms of cocaine base, 100 kilograms or more of a substance containing marijuana, 100 grams or more of methamphetamine, or 200 grams or more of a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. However, a person who violates the statute with regard to the above substances and quantities is not subject to the mandatory, minimum 20-year term if he has not been previously convicted of a violent crime, did not threaten violence in the commission of the offense, death or serious bodily injury did not occur, the person was not an organizer or leader, and the person fully cooperates. The bill also creates two new "kingpin" provisions. The first is punishable by a maximum $1,000,000 fine and by 20 years to life with a 20-year mandatory, minimum term and is predicated upon gross receipts of between $100,000 and $250,000 in any 12-month period. However, the sentence may be reduced to a mandatory, minimum 40 years if the defendant provides substantial assistance in the prosecution of another person for violation of § 18.2-248. The substances and quantities upon which the first kingpin penalty is predicated are: one to five kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of heroin; five to 10 kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, 2.5 to 5.0 kilograms of cocaine base, 100 to 250 kilograms of a substance containing marijuana, 100 to 250 grams of methamphetamine, and 200 grams to one kilogram of a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. The second kingpin provision also imposes a maximum $1,000,000 fine but increases imprisonment to life without release. Such punishment requires gross receipts of over $250,000, plus possession of the following substance quantities: five or more kilograms of heroin, 10 of more kilograms of a substance containing cocaine, five of more kilograms of cocaine base, 250 kilograms or more of marijuana, or 250 kilograms or more of methemphetamine. A kingpin convicted under these provisions can also have his sentence reduced to a 40-year minimum, mandatory term for substantial assistance in the prosecution of another person. The bill punishes transporting into the Commonwealth one ounce or more of any Schedule I or II controlled substance by a minimum, mandatory three-year term plus a fine of up to $1,000,000 and a minimum, mandatory term of 10 years for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill punishes possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids with six months minimum, mandatory incarceration. The bill punishes a third felony offense of trafficking in marijuana by a sentence of five years to life with a three-year minimum, mandatory sentence, plus a maximum $500,000 fine. The bill mandates substance abuse screening, treatment and education as a condition of a suspended sentence. The bill also revises the penalty for violation of the "drug-free school zone" law (possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school or designated school bus stop) to include a one-year minimum, mandatory term of incarceration for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill also charges the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission with a study of the recommended sentencing midpoints for cases involving Schedule I or II drugs and marijuana where the defendant has been previously convicted of such an offense. This bill is identical to SB 153.
Patron - McDonnell

P HB437
Pointing laser at law-enforcement officer unlawful; penalty. Provides that, if any person, knowing or having reason to know another person is a law-enforcement officer, a correctional officer, a probation or parole officer, or a person employed by the Department of Corrections directly involved in the care, treatment or supervision of inmates, intentionally projects at such other person a beam or a point of light from a laser or laser-like device, he is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Patron - Callahan

P HB526
Computer network; definition. Changes the definition of "computer network" to mean two or more computers connected by a network. The bill then defines a "network" as any combination of digital transmission facilities and packet switches, routers, and similar equipment interconnected to enable the exchange of computer data.
Patron - Nixon

P HB717
Court appearance; penalizing employee. Clarifies that the job protections provided an employee for court appearance or for jury service extend to such appearances in any court whatsoever. The bill also increases the penalty against an employer who violates this section from a Class 4 to a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Patron - Armstrong

P HB811
Charitable gaming; fair market rental value. Establishes a moratorium on any disciplinary actions by the Charitable Gaming commission solely based on an organization's failure to meet the required minimum percentage of gross receipts required to be used for charitable purposes provided (i) that organization was conducting gaming in a rented facility prior to January 1, 2000, and (ii) the organization is otherwise in compliance with the law. In addition, the bill also prohibits the lease or rental of any premises devoted to the conduct of charitable gaming from being conditioned upon the use or the purchase of any services, products or, or readily portable property from any landlord or other person unless they are included in the rent being paid. The bill also directs the Commission to examine the issues related to the fair market rental value and its effect on the ability of organizations to meet the minimum percentages of gross receipts required to be used for charitable purposes and to report to the Governor and General Assembly by January 10, 2001. The bill has a July 1, 2001 sunset.
Patron - Joannou

P HB978
Punishment for conviction of felony. Limits the application of the death penalty for a Class 1 felony conviction to those who are 16 years of age or older at the time of the offense.
Patron - Darner

P HB1102
Alcohol safety action programs. Allows any person charged with driving while intoxicated to enter into an alcohol safety action program prior to trial.
Patron - Albo

P HB1108
Body-piercing. Prohibits any person from performing body piercing on a person less than 18 years of age, unless the person's parent or guardian is present or unless the procedure is performed under the supervision of a medical doctor, registered nurse or other medical services personnel, with a Class 2 misdemeanor upon conviction, and a Class 1 misdemeanor for a second offense. Body-piercing is defined as "the act of penetrating the skin to make a hole, mark, or scar, generally permanent in nature" and does not include mechanized, presterilized ear-piercing. This bill also allows localities to regulate the sanitary conditions of body-piercing salons.
Patron - Joannou

P HB1131
Ignition interlock system. Provides that the local alcohol safety action program shall make the published list of certified ignition interlock companies available to eligible offenders, who shall have the responsibility and authority to choose which certified ignition interlock company will supply the offender's equipment. This bill is identical to SB 535.
Patron - Kilgore

P HB1163
Charitable Gaming Commission; member expenses, notice of meetings, and open records. Provides that Commission members be paid and reimbursed for expenses at the rate of $50 a day, plus reasonable and necessary expenses. The bill also brings the governing statute of the Charitable Gaming Commission in line with the new Freedom of Information Act, and helps simplify FOI requests for information and records.
Patron - Albo

P HB1229
Assault and battery; actions by school personnel. Provides that the offenses of simple assault and assault and battery do not include the use, by any teacher acting in his official capacity, of incidental, minor or reasonable physical contact or other actions designed to maintain order and control; or reasonable and necessary force (i) to quell a disturbance or remove a student from the scene of a disturbance that threatens physical injury to persons or damage to property; (ii) to prevent a student from inflicting physical harm on himself; (iii) for self-defense or the defense of others; or (iv) to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects or controlled substances. This language mirrors the provisions of § 22.1-279.1 that preclude the use of corporal punishment in public schools and set forth exceptions for the use of reasonable and necessary actions.
Patron - McEachin

P HB1461
Sale, distribution or possession of bidis. Increases the civil penalties imposed on an individual or separate retail establishment violating the current prohibition on the sale or distribution of tobacco products to minors, if the violation involves a bidi. A bidi is defined as a product containing tobacco that is wrapped in temburni leaf or tendu leaf, or any other product that is offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a bidi or beedie. The civil penalties increase as follows: (i) for a first violation, a mandatory $500; (ii) for a second violation, a mandatory $1,000; and (iii) for a third or subsequent violation, a mandatory $2,500.
Patron - Bolvin

P HB1492
Unlawful electronic file or mail. Includes an obscene item stored in an electronic medium as one of the enumerated obscene items under § 18.2-373. The bill provides that an Internet service provider (ISP) or electronic mail service provider shall not be liable under § 18.2-391 when a person using such services violates this section.
Patron - Devolites

P HB1524
Harassment by computer; crime. Creates a crime of harassment by computer. The bill would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor to use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or to make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature or threaten any illegal or immoral act with intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass.
Patron - Albo

P SB143
Criminal gang activity. Creates a new series of separate and distinct felonies based on prohibited criminal street gang activity and participation in certain currently illegal activity.
Patron - Forbes

P SB149
Driving while intoxicated; penalties. Makes numerous changes to the laws punishing drunk driving. Among the major changes, the bill amends the mandatory, minimum period of confinement for a second DUI offense within five years from 48 hours to five days and sets forth a mandatory, minimum period of confinement of 10 days upon conviction for a third offense within 10 years and of 30 days upon conviction for a third offense within five years. The bill requires a six-month ignition interlock period. The bill also allows a Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (VASAP) evaluation to determine whether a person convicted of DUI is amenable to treatment and, therefore, eligible for a restricted license while in a VASAP program. Anyone convicted of a second offense within five years is ineligible for a restricted license for the first year following the second conviction and is required to use an ignition interlock for six months at the end of the restriction period.
Patron - Stolle

P SB153
SABRE: Substance Abuse Reduction Effort. Creates an omnibus drug statute reform. The bill requires juveniles found delinquent and adults found guilty for a first drug offense be subject to periodic substance abuse testing, drug treatment and education. The bill mandates six months extra time on a felony sentence if the mandatory drug assessment indicates a substance abuse problem. The bill establishes quantities of certain controlled substances for which an offense of possession with intent to distribute penalizes the offender with a $1,000,000 fine and imprisonment for a period of 20 years to life, 20 years of which is a minimum, mandatory term. Those substances and quantities are: one or more kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of heroin, five or more kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, 2.5 or more kilograms of cocaine base, 100 kilograms or more of a substance containing marijuana, 100 grams or more of methamphetamine, or 200 grams or more of a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. However, a person who violates the statute with regard to the above substances and quantities is not subject to the mandatory, minimum 20-year term if he has not been previously convicted of a violent crime, did not threaten violence in the commission of the offense, death or serious bodily injury did not occur, the person was not an organizer or leader, and the person fully cooperates. The bill also creates two new "kingpin" provisions. The first is punishable by a maximum $1,000,000 fine and by 20 years to life with a 20-year mandatory, minimum term and is predicated upon gross receipts of between $100,000 and $250,000 in any 12-month period. However, the sentence may be reduced to a mandatory, minimum 40 years if the defendant provides substantial assistance in the prosecution of another person for violation of § 18.2-248. The substances and quantities upon which the first kingpin penalty is predicated are: one to five kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of heroin; five to 10 kilograms of a substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, 2.5 to 5.0 kilograms of cocaine base, 100 to 250 kilograms of a substance containing marijuana, 100 to 250 grams of methamphetamine, and 200 grams to one kilogram of a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. The second kingpin provision also imposes a maximum $1,000,000 fine but increases imprisonment to life without release. Such punishment requires gross receipts of over $250,000, plus possession of the following substance quantities: five or more kilograms of heroin, 10 of more kilograms of a substance containing cocaine, five of more kilograms of cocaine base, 250 kilograms or more of marijuana, or 250 kilograms or more of methemphetamine. A kingpin convicted under these provisions can also have his sentence reduced to a 40-year minimum, mandatory term for substantial assistance in the prosecution of another person. The bill punishes transporting into the Commonwealth one ounce or more of any Schedule I or II controlled substance by a minimum, mandatory three-year term plus a fine of up to $1,000,000 and a minimum, mandatory term of 10 years for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill punishes possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids with six months minimum, mandatory incarceration. The bill punishes a third felony offense of trafficking in marijuana by a sentence of five years to life with a three-year minimum, mandatory sentence, plus a maximum $500,000 fine. The bill mandates substance abuse screening, treatment and education as a condition of a suspended sentence. The bill also revises the penalty for violation of the "drug-free school zone" law (possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school or designated school bus stop) to include a one-year minimum, mandatory term of incarceration for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill also charges the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission with a study of the recommended sentencing midpoints for cases involving Schedule I or II drugs and marijuana where the defendant has been previously convicted of such an offense. Identical to HB 383.
Patron - Stolle

P SB176
Punishment upon conviction of certain criminal sexual acts. Expands the list of those sexual offenses for which a second or subsequent offense is punishable by the maximum amount allowable for the latest offense, none of which is subject to suspension. This change allows a second offense, taken from the list of more serious (life imprisonment) second offenses, to aggravate the punishment of a less serious first offense. The bill also increases the punishment for a second or subsequent offenses of taking indecent liberties with children to a Class 5 felony. Currently all such offenses are Class 6 felonies.
Patron - Howell

P SB197
Sexual offenses. Provides that anyone convicted of an "offense prohibiting proximity to children" is forever prohibited from loitering within 100 feet of a primary, secondary or high school. The crimes that qualify as an offense prohibiting proximity to children are: abduction and kidnapping of a minor, abduction of a minor with intent to defile or for immoral purpose, crimes against nature with a minor relative, adultery or fornication with a minor relative, rape of a child under age 13, carnal knowledge of a child between 13 and15, carnal knowledge of certain minors, forcible sodomy with a child under age 13, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration of a child under age 13, aggravated sexual battery of a child under age 13, taking indecent liberties with children, taking indecent liberties with child by person in custodial or supervisory relationship, cause or encouraging acts rendering children delinquent or abused, possession with intent to distribute of sexually explicit items involving children, possession of child pornography and employing a minor to assist in an obscenity offense.
Patron - Williams

P SB199
Penalties for sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute marijuana. Raises the penalty for providing marijuana to an inmate from a Class 5 to a Class 4 felony.
Patron - Puckett

P SB202
Use of explosives; issuance of permits; penalty. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to consider all permit applications for manufacturing, storing, handling, using or selling explosives, including a background examination to include a criminal history record information check including all applicants and those designated persons representing corporate applicants. The bill also (i) requires the Board to deny a permit application of anyone convicted of a felony in Virginia, any other state, the District of Columbia, or the United States, unless the civil rights of the applicant have been restored; (ii) exempts from the permit requirements those persons holding a permit under Virginia mining laws; and (iii) requires the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, to study application of this law to coal and mineral mining industries.
Patron - Mims

P SB525
Crimes; driving while intoxicated. Requires the imposition of additional minimum, mandatory jail terms upon conviction if the accused's blood alcohol level was 0.20 or more. For a first offense, if the level was at least 0.20 but not more than 0.25, the mandatory confinement is for five days, or if the BAC is 0.25 or more, 10 days. For any second offense within 10 years, if the BAC was at least 0.20 but not more than 0.25, the term is 10 days; if 0.25 or more, 20 days.
Patron - Mims

P SB535
Ignition interlock system. Provides that the local alcohol safety action program shall make the published list of certified ignition interlock companies available to eligible offenders, who shall have the responsibility and authority to choose which certified ignition interlock company will supply the offender's equipment. Identical to HB 1131.
Patron - Watkins

F Failed

F HB82
Assuming the identity of another person. Adds a new section to the Code, providing that any person who takes, assumes, or uses the name, birth date, social security number or identification of another person, living or dead, with the intent to (i) obtain credit, money, goods, services, license, membership, status, or an occupation; (ii) avoid the payment of debt or other legal obligation; or (iii) avoid prosecution for a crime, shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Patron - McQuigg

F HB148
Possession of firearms and other dangerous weapons in county-owned or operated facilities. Allows Fairfax County to adopt an ordinance making it unlawful to possess a dangerous weapon on any county-owned or operated facility.
Patron - Scott

F HB157
Crimes; transporting controlled substances. Provides for a minimum, mandatory term of three years, to be served consecutively with any other sentence imposed, for transporting a controlled substance. The minimum, mandatory term may not be suspended. The maximum fine that may also be imposed for this crime is increased from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
Patron - Harris

F HB158
Crimes; manufacturing, distributing or possession of illegal steroids. Imposes a minimum, mandatory six-month term of incarceration for any person found guilty of manufacturing, distributing or possessing illegal steroids.
Patron - Harris

F HB242
Disarming a law-enforcement or correctional officer. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who knows or has reason to know a person is a law-enforcement or correctional officer and, with the intent to impede or prevent the officer from performing his official duties, knowingly and without the officer's permission removes a firearm, a chemical irritant weapon, stun weapon, or impact weapon from the possession of the officer or deprives the officer of the use of the weapon.
Patron - Joannou

F HB244
Hate crimes. Adds "sexual orientation" to the categories of victims whose selection for a "hate crime" involving assault or trespass amplifies the Class 1 misdemeanor or Class 6 felony penalty. The penalty includes a six-month minimum, mandatory sentence, 30 days of which cannot be suspended.
Patron - Almand

F HB282
Distribution of certain drugs to persons under 18 prohibited; penalty. Removes the requirement that the minor be at least three years younger than the adult in order for an adult to be found guilty of trafficking in controlled substances and involving a minor by selling to the minor or having a minor assist in trafficking.
Patron - Suit

F HB307
Transporting controlled substances; penalty. Specifies that it is unlawful for any person to transport by any means (i) one ounce or more of cocaine, coca leaves or any salt, compound, derivative or preparation thereof as described in Schedule II of the Drug Control Act , (ii) any other Schedule I or II controlled substance or (iii) five or more pounds of marijuana into the Commonwealth with intent to sell or distribute such substance.
Patron - Howell

F HB311
Threats to bomb or damage buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue. Provides that any person convicted of threatening to bomb or damage a building, knowingly conveying false information regarding the existence of such perils, or inciting such actions shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony. Previously, violations of these sections by juveniles under the age of 15 were punished as Class 1 misdemeanors.
Patron - Sherwood

F HB350
Possession of weapon in public building. Makes the possession of a firearm in a public building a Class 6 felony and possession of other weapons a Class 1 misdemeanor. In addition, there is a mandatory, minimum term of three years if the person intends to use, attempts to use or displays the firearm in a threatening manner.
Patron - Marshall

F HB351
Possession of weapons in parks. Makes the possession of a firearm in a public park a Class 6 felony and possession of other weapons a Class 1 misdemeanor. In addition, there is a mandatory, minimum term of three years if the person intends to use, attempts to use or displays the firearm in a threatening manner.
Patron - Marshall

F HB352
Definition of "obscene." Redefines the word "obscene" for the purposes of criminal prosecution to also mean hard-core pornography and defines "hard-core pornography" to mean any visual material or performance which explicitly depicts ultimate sexual acts, including vaginal or anal intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, anallingus or masturbation and which clearly and visibly depicts genital, anal or oral penetration, manipulation of the genitals, or ejaculation.
Patron - Marshall

F HB357
Penalties for possession of certain quantities of controlled substances or marijuana. Raises the penalty for possession of large amounts of certain Class I and II controlled substances and marijuana to a mandatory, minimum term of 20 years in prison to life in prison.
Patron - Albo

F HB367
Possession of firearms by certain convicted people; penalty. Provides that any person who has been convicted on two or more occasions of stalking, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, or of assault and battery of a family or household member, or a combination of any two or more such convictions, is prohibited forever from possessing a firearm.
Patron - Scott

F HB382
Penalty for subsequent conviction of certain drug offenses. Punishes a subsequent conviction of manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give or distribute a Class I or II controlled substance or transporting controlled substances into the Commonwealth by a sentence of imprisonment of five years to life and a fine of no more than $500,000. The bill also provides that three years of such sentence of imprisonment shall be a minimum, mandatory term, not subject to suspension.
Patron - McDonnell

F HB385
Illegal drug sales. Amends statute that prohibits sale of drugs in or around schools and certain other public property to require a minimum, mandatory one year of imprisonment.
Patron - McDonnell

F HB466
Restricted license. Allows the granting of a restricted license for medically necessary transportation of an elderly parent and travel necessary for court-ordered visitation with minor children.
Patron - McDonnell

F HB481
Testimony by child victims and witnesses. Provides that in any criminal proceeding, including preliminary hearings, involving an alleged offense in which a child is the victim of or witness to a felony or an offense of the laws pertaining to kidnapping, criminal sexual assault or certain family offenses, the testimony of the alleged child victim or child witness may be taken in a room outside the courtroom and be televised by two-way closed-circuit television. This practice is currently limited to child victims of those crimes.
Patron - Watts

F HB563
Crimes; grand larceny defined. Increases the amount necessary to qualify as grand larceny from $200 to $300, and amends the various sections which draw a distinction between grand larceny and petit larceny or between misdemeanors and felonies based on the $200 amount.
Patron - Moran

F HB597
Assault and Battery. Changes the definition of assault and battery against a school official to add "teacher's aide" to the list of victims which is now comprised of a teacher, principal, assistant principal or guidance counselor.
Patron - McQuigg

F HB629
The sale of tobacco products to minors. Raises the penalty for the sale of tobacco products to a minor from $100 to $1,000 for a first violation and from $200 to $5,000 for a second or subsequent violation. Additionally, this amendment removes the option for the court that allowed the court to find that a retail establishment failed to train its employees, and thereafter impose a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 in lieu of any penalties imposed by the section.
Patron - Albo

F HB630
Penalty for driving while intoxicated; subsequent offense. Provides that any person convicted of a second offense of driving while intoxicated committed within less than five years after a first such offense shall be punishable by confinement in jail for a minimum, mandatory sentence of five days. The current minimum, mandatory sentence is 48 hours. This complies with TEA-21 (federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century) requirements.
Patron - Albo

F HB718
Crimes against nature; penalty. Reduces the penalty for crimes against nature, excluding bestiality, between consenting adults from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 misdemeanor.
Patron - Darner

F HB758
Body piercing of persons less than eighteen years of age; penalty. Provides that no person shall perform a body piercing of a person who is less than 18 years of age except in the presence of that person's parent or guardian when he knows or has reason to believe that person is less than 18 years of age. The bill punishes such behavior as a Class 2 misdemeanor, and as a Class 1 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent conviction.
Patron - Pollard

F HB825
Maiming, killing or poisoning fowl or companion animals; penalty. Increases the penalty for maliciously shooting, stabbing, wounding, administering poison to, or exposing poison with intent that it be taken by a fowl or companion animal from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Jones, S.C.

F HB958
Concealed handgun permits. Provides that concealed handgun application records are sealed records to be opened only upon order of the court for good cause shown.
Patron - Keister

F HB1107
Crimes against nature. Decriminalizes the act of a person who carnally knows any male or female person who is 18 years of age or older.
Patron - Moran

F HB1143
Charitable Gaming Commission; raffles. Requires the Charitable Gaming Commission to adopt regulations which authorize a qualified organization to conduct up to eight raffles per year.
Patron - Abbitt

F HB1182
Crimes; battery of a sports official. Provides for a mandatory period of incarceration of two days when the accused is an adult who commits a battery against a sports official with the intent to cause bodily injury, and six months' mandatory incarceration if a weapon is used.
Patron - Reid

F HB1313
Blood samples taken by emergency room personnel. Provides that a hospital blood sample may serve as probable cause for DUI arrest of a driver involved in an accident, and allows the officer to direct the emergency room personnel to take another blood sample for Virginia lab analysis. The bill relieves hospital personnel from civil liability, in the absence of negligence, for following the officer's directions.
Patron - Almand

F HB1314
Possessing a dangerous weapon in a publicly owned recreation or community center; penalty. Allows the governig body of any county with an urban county executive form of government to adopt an ordinance making the possession of a dangerous weapon in a publicly owned recreation or community center a Class 1 (or less) misdemeanor. Exceptions are included for law enforcement personnel and court personnel.
Patron - Hull

F HB1319
Charitable Gaming Commission; regulations. Provides that the Virginia Charitable Gaming Commission shall determine fees for permit applications, audits and setting the percentage an organization is required to give on adjusted gross receipts, defined in the bill as gross receipts minus (i) winner-take-all games and (ii) the cost of gaming supplies.
Patron - Ruff

F HB1322
Concealed weapons. Allows any retired United States Marshal to carry a concealed weapon without having to apply for a permit if the proper proof for the need to carry has been issued by the United States Department of Justice.
Patron - Ruff

F HB1384
Prostitution. Provides that upon conviction of a second or subsequent offense of prostitution, the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory, minimum term of confinement of at least six months.
Patron - Baskerville

F HB1482
Informed written consent for abortion. Establishes certain conditions for obtaining informed written consent from a pregnant woman, of any age, prior to performing an abortion, including the requirement that each woman be given, at least 24 hours before the abortion, an explanation of the proposed procedures or protocols; an instruction that she may withdraw her consent at any time prior to the procedure; an offer to speak with the physician who is to perform the abortion; a statement of the probable gestational age of the fetus at the time the procedure is to be performed; and an offer to review printed materials that must be developed by the Department of Health. The printed materials to be developed by the Department of Health include information (i) indexed by geographical area on services available to assist a woman through pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing; (ii) depicting gestational development in two-week increments; and (iii) describing methods of abortion and the risks of abortion and full-term pregnancy. Informed written consent is not required in medical emergencies, which are defined as conditions which, on the basis of the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicate the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
Patron - McDonnell

F HB1508
Handgun sales. Prohibits the sale of handguns to anyone under the age of 21. Current law prohibits the sale to a minor.
Patron - Almand

F HB1542
Stalking; harassment; crime. Amends the current stalking statute to prohibit using electronic communication devices to stalk a person. This practice is sometimes referred to as "cyber-stalking." The bill would create a crime of harassment by computer. The bill would also make it a Class 1 misdemeanor to use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or to make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature or threaten any illegal or immoral act (i) with intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass or (ii) to communicate in any such manner to an individual he knows or believes to be a juvenile. The bill would also make it a crime to communicate another person's personal information without that person's permission if done with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass that person,.
Patron - O'Brien

F SB81
Possession of firearm or other weapon on school property. Eliminates several exceptions to the prohibition on possession of firearms and other weapons on school property. The exceptions eliminated are: possession as part of the school's curriculum, possession as part of a school-sponsored or school-authorized program, possession of an unloaded firearm in a closed container, a knife in a motor vehicle, or an unloaded shotgun or rifle in a firearms rack in a motor vehicle.
Patron - Howell

F SB108
Illegal drug sales. Amends statute that prohibits sale of drugs in or around schools and certain other public property to require a minimum, mandatory one year of imprisonment. Rolled into SB 153 - Omnibus SABRE.
Patron - Rerras

F SB109
Penalty for subsequent conviction of certain drug offenses. Punishes a subsequent conviction of manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give or distribute a Class I or II controlled substance or transporting controlled substances into the Commonwealth by a sentence of imprisonment of five years to life and a fine of no more than $500,000. The bill also provides that three years of such sentence of imprisonment shall be a minimum, mandatory term, not subject to suspension. Rolled into SB 153 - Omnibus SABRE.
Patron - Rerras

F SB118
Distribution of certain drugs to persons under 18 prohibited; penalty. Removes the requirement that the minor be at least three years younger than the adult in order for an adult to be found guilty of trafficking in controlled substances and involving a minor by selling to the minor or having a minor assist in trafficking. Rolled into SB 153 - Omnibus SABRE.
Patron - Quayle

F SB120
Crimes; manufacturing, distributing or possession of illegal steroids. Imposes a minimum, mandatory six-month term of incarceration for any person found guilty of manufacturing, distributing or possessing illegal steroids. Rolled into SB 153 - Omnibus SABRE.
Patron - Quayle

F SB154
Crimes; transporting controlled substances. Provides for a minimum, mandatory term of three years, to be served consecutively with any other sentence imposed, for transporting a controlled substance. The minimum, mandatory term may not be suspended. The maximum fine that may also be imposed for this crime is increased from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Rolled into SB 153 - Omnibus SABRE.
Patron - Stolle

F SB184
Solicitation to commit felony. Increases and gradates the penalties. Rolled into SB 203.
Patron - Reynolds

F SB186
Firearm sales to minors. Under current law it is a Class 6 felony to furnish a handgun to a minor; this bill adds rifles and shotguns to that provision.
Patron - Byrne

F SB190
Selling shotgun or rifle to minor. Makes it a Class 6 felony to sell a rifle or shotgun to a minor without giving written notification to the parents and receiving written acknowledgement from the parents.
Patron - Byrne

F SB191
Assault and battery. Provides that a defendant convicted of assault and battery is guilty of a Class 6 felony if he has two prior convictions of any of the following offenses: assault and battery, malicious wounding, unlawful wounding, aggravated malicious wounding or murder. The prior convictions must be within 10 years of the assault and battery conviction and such incidents must have occurred on different dates.
Patron - Trumbo

F SB192
Use or display of firearm in committing felony. Adds maliciously shooting at a motor vehicle and maliciously shooting at or within an occupied dwelling to those offenses for which a defendant may be convicted of the use of a firearm as a separate and distinct felony.
Patron - Trumbo

F SB316
Refusal of blood or breath test. Removes provision that prohibits the Commonwealth from introducing as evidence or commenting upon the fact that a defendant charged with driving under the influence refused to take a blood or breath test and allows the defendant's refusal of a blood or breath test to be admissible into evidence if deemed relevant by the court.
Patron - Reynolds

F SB365
Refusal of blood or breath test. Removes provision that prohibits the Commonwealth from introducing as evidence or commenting upon the fact that a defendant charged with driving under the influence refused to take a blood or breath test.
Patron - Trumbo

F SB697
Crimes against nature. Decriminalizes the act of a person who carnally knows any male or female person who is 18 years of age or older.
Patron - Ticer

F SB741
Possessing open alcoholic beverages while operating a motor vehicle; penalty. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to possess any alcoholic beverage in the passenger area of a motor vehicle in other than the manufacturer's unopened, original container. The offense is punishable as a traffic infraction. The bill also reduces the penalty for the act of consuming alcohol while driving from a Class 4 misdemeanor to a traffic infraction.
Patron - Rerras

F SB781
Civil jurisdiction of the general district courts, the crime of unlawful abortion, informed written consent as a prerequisite for a lawful abortion; penalty. Establishes certain conditions for obtaining informed written consent from a pregnant woman, of any age, prior to performing an abortion, including the requirement that each woman be given, at least 24 hours before the abortion, an explanation of the proposed procedures or protocols; an instruction that she may withdraw her consent at any time prior to the procedure; an offer to speak with the physician who is to perform the abortion; a statement of the probable gestational age of the fetus at the time the procedure is to be performed; and an offer to review printed materials that must be developed by the Department of Health. The printed materials to be developed by the Department of Health include information (i) indexed by geographical area on services available to assist a woman through pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing; (ii) depicting gestational development in two-week increments; and (iii) describing methods of abortion and the risks of abortion and full-term pregnancy. Informed written consent is not required in medical emergencies, which are defined as conditions which, on the basis of the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicate the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. Additionally, the bill provides that jurisdiction lies in the general district courts for a violation of the informed consent provisions.
Patron - Forbes

C Carried Over

C HB145
Implied consent to post-accident chemical test to determine drug or alcohol content of blood. Provides that any person, whether licensed by Virginia or not, who operates a motor vehicle upon a highway in this Commonwealth shall be deemed to have consented to have samples of his blood, breath, or both blood and breath taken for a chemical test to determine the alcohol, drug, or both alcohol and drug content of his blood if he is involved in a traffic accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury and a law-enforcement officer finds, within two hours of the accident, probable cause to believe that the person caused the accident
Patron - Deeds

C HB173
Threats of death or bodily injury to persons; penalty. Provides that, if a person sends a note threatening to kill or injure another person, the person is guilty of the crime whether or not the person receiving the note is the intended victim. Currently, there is a crime only if the recipient or a member of his family is the intended victim. The bill also broadens liability for making oral threats to kill or to do bodily injury against persons in schools to include students and any other persons who have reason to be at a school. Currently, the law only applies to threatened school employees.
Patron - Phillips

C HB174
Threats; penalty. Adds the electronic transmission and web site posting of threats and bomb threat statutes and includes students in the class of individuals against whom it is illegal to make oral threats. The bill also increases the penalty for oral threats against school employees (now including students) from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Phillips

C HB197
Oral or written threats to commit acts of violence on school property; penalty. Provides that any person who makes an oral or written threat to commit an act of violence on any elementary, middle or secondary school property or at a school-sponsored event shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Sherwood

C HB246
Possession of firearm or other weapon on school property. Eliminates several exceptions to the prohibition on possession of firearms and other weapons on school property. The exceptions eliminated are: possession as part of the school's curriculum, possession as part of a school-sponsored or school-authorized program, possession of an unloaded firearm in a closed container, a knife in a motor vehicle, or an unloaded shotgun or rifle in a firearms rack in a motor vehicle.
Patron - Dillard

C HB247
Discharge of firearms in schools. Eliminates an exemption to the provision that anyone who willfully discharges a firearm at a school or on public property within 1,000 feet of a school is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The exemption provided that the Class 4 felony provision did not apply to discharge of a firearm at a school (or on public property within 1,000 feet of a school) if the firearm was used for lawful hunting, for a program or curriculum sponsored by or conducted with permission of the school or while in or on an established shooting range.
Patron - Dillard

C HB270
Capital murder defined; penalty. Makes it a capital offense to kill a person because of the victim's actual or perceived race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religious conviction or national origin.
Patron - Parrish

C HB271
Capital murder defined; penalty. Makes the killing of a person for the purpose of preventing that person from testifying in any judicial proceeding a capital offense.
Patron - Parrish

C HB288
Use or display of firearm in committing felony. Makes it a separate and distinct felony to use a firearm to commit voluntary manslaughter.
Patron - Phillips

C HB292
Manufacture, possession, use, etc., of fire bombs or explosive materials or devices; penalties. Creates a minimum, mandatory term of imprisonment of five years for the possession, manufacture or use of explosive materials, if the violation occurs on school grounds.
Patron - McEachin

C HB300
Driving under the influence of drugs. Creates a rebuttable presumption that driving while there is any concentration whatsoever of a narcotic drug or a self-administered intoxicating drug in the blood constitutes driving under the influence of drugs. Current law requires proof that the driver's ability to drive is impaired by the drugs in order to be considered intoxicated.
Patron - Deeds

C HB310
Criminal records checks; the sale or transfer of firearms for a dealer or at a gun show; penalties. Requires firearms dealers to conduct an annual criminal records check for each of their employees or agents who sell firearms either at their place of business or at a gun show. The provisions of this section track the language of § 18.2-308.2:2, which requires criminal records checks for purchasers of firearms. The bill requires criminal records checks for persons transferring firearms subject to § 18.2-308.2:2 at gun shows. Additionally, there is a requirement for the Virginia State Police to maintain permanent records of the consent forms and firearm seller's numbers. This bill also creates new crimes: a Class 5 felony for providing false information on the consent form and Class 1 misdemeanors for either transferring a firearm in violation of this section or employing someone in violation of this section.
Patron - Watts

C HB316
Impeding a public sidewalk or walkway; penalty. Provides that if any person without authority of law blocks or impedes access to any public sidewalk or public walkway with the intent to prevent the free movement of any other person on the sidewalk or walkway, he is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Patron - Melvin

C HB325
Murder of aborted newborn. Provides that the willful and deliberate killing of a living child immediately after the attempted abortion of such child shall be punished by a term of imprisonment of not less than five years nor more than 40 years.
Patron - Black

C HB329
Disarming a law-enforcement or correctional officer. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knows or has reason to know a person is a law-enforcement or correctional officer or an employee of the Department of Corrections and, with the intent to impede or prevent the officer from performing his official duties, by assault or otherwise, knowingly and without the officer's permission, removes a chemical irritant weapon, or impact weapon from the possession of the officer or deprives the officer of the use of the weapon. If the weapon removed is a firearm or stun weapon, the crime is a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Callahan

C HB331
Stopping payment on checks; larceny. Provides that any person who, with intent to defraud, stops payment on a check, draft or order before the recipient is able to cash the same shall be guilty of larceny. If the check, draft, or order has a represented value of $200 or more, such person shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. In cases in which such value is less than $200, the person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides, however, that if, within 72 hours following the stop-payment order, the maker of the check, draft or order deposits with the court of proper jurisdiction funds in an amount equal to the check, draft or order and gives notice to the intended recipient of the check, draft or order that payment has been stopped and the funds deposited with the court, it shall be presumed, subject to rebuttal, that no fraud was intended or larceny committed. Within 30 days following deposit of the funds with the court, the intended recipient may institute an action, in the court where the funds are deposited, against the maker, for recovery of the money.
Patron - Griffith

C HB333
Crimes; criminal solicitation. Enhances the penalty for criminal solicitation from a Class 6 felony to a Class 2 felony, regardless of the age of the person who the defendant tries to persuade to commit a felony.
Patron - Griffith

C HB337
Solicitation to commit felony. Increases and gradates the penalties.
Patron - Armstrong

C HB339
Crimes; third misdemeanor conviction. Adds the conviction of peeping or spying into an occupied dwelling to the list of sexual misdemeanors that are treated as felonies if they occur after a person has been convicted at least two times for any of the named misdemeanors during the previous 10 years. Currently, the list includes sexual battery or attempted sexual battery, intercourse with a child, and indecent exposure.
Patron - Almand

C HB349
Homicide of a child; penalty. Provides that the voluntary manslaughter of a child under the age of five is punishable as a Class 4 felony. (Currently, all voluntary manslaughter is punishable as a Class 5 felony.)
Patron - Marshall

C HB368
Possession of firearms by certain convicted people; penalty. Provides that any person who has been convicted of stalking, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, or of assault and battery of a family or household member, is prohibited from possessing a firearm for a period of five years. A violation of the section is a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Scott

C HB369
Threats to bomb or damage buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue. Raises the penalty for making bomb threats from a Class 5 to a Class 4 felony and lowers the age whereby minors may be tried as adults from under 15 to under 13.
Patron - Grayson

C HB389
Multiple murders or felonious assaults; penalty. Creates a new punishment for conviction of multiple murders or felonious assaults that are part of the same act or transaction. A violation of this section is a separate and distinct offense and punishment may be imposed in addition to any punishment imposed for violation of the predicate offenses.
Patron - Harris

C HB395
Personal protection; carrying concealed weapons; when lawful to carry. Clarifies that a court shall consult with either the local sheriff or police department to receive a report from the Central Criminal Records Exchange, prior to issuing a concealed weapons permit. Currently, this Code section uses the term "law-enforcement authorities."
Patron - Joannou

C HB516
Threats to use guns in schools; penalty. Provides that if any person with intent to cause fear in any other person communicates a threat to use a firearm to kill or do bodily harm to another person in the buildings or upon the grounds of any elementary, middle or secondary school, any school bus, any school property or the location of a school-sponsored activity, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Patron - Armstrong

C HB532
Juvenile records. Allows law-enforcement agencies to release records of a juvenile 14 years of age or older charged with a felony. Under current law this information may be released only if the juvenile is charged with murder or aggravated malicious wounding.
Patron - Armstrong

C HB672
Assault and battery on police animals; penalty. Punishes an assault and battery on a police animal as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Currently this is not a crime; however, maliciously doing bodily injury to a police animal is punishable as a Class 5 felony.
Patron - Byron

C HB686
Possession of firearms by persons voluntarily admitted to a mental institution. Prohibits persons voluntarily admitted to a public mental health facility pursuant to § 37.1-65, or to a private mental health facility, from purchase, possession or transportation of firearms. Under current law, this prohibition only applies to persons involuntarily committed to such facilities.
Patron - Parrish

C HB822
Presentation of flags. Provides that no person, group of persons, entity or locality shall prohibit or restrict the presentation of flags on private property.
Patron - Ingram

C HB924
Refusal of blood or breath test. Removes a provision that prohibits the Commonwealth from introducing as evidence or commenting in court upon the fact that a defendant charged with driving under the influence refused to take a blood or breath test. The bill allows the defendant's refusal of a blood or breath test to be admissible into evidence if deemed relevant by the court.
Patron - Watts

C HB944
Charitable Gaming Commission; veterans' organizations. Provides that veterans' organizations shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the Charitable Gaming Commission. Under the bill, however, these organizations must still comply with the law as it relates to the conduct of the charitable gaming.
Patron - Abbitt

C HB971
Presentation of flags. Provides that no person, group of persons, entity or locality shall prohibit or restrict the presentation of flags on private property.
Patron - Day

C HB996
Restricted license eligibility after conviction for refusal to give blood or breath in DUI case. Provides that if the court or jury finds the defendant guilty of refusal to give blood or breath in a DUI case the court may, as an alternative to suspending the defendant's license for one year, provide that the defendant be issued a restricted driver's license for a period of one year.
Patron - Robinson

C HB1067
Threats and bomb threats; penalty. Adds the electronic transmission and web site posting of threats and bomb threat statutes and expands the list of targets to any person, no matter who actually receives the threat. The bill also includes students in the class of individuals against whom it is illegal to make oral threats. The bill also increases the penalty for oral threats against school employees (now including students) from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony. The bill also adds bomb threats to the list of offenses required to be reported to school and law-enforcement authorities when the threat is made against school personnel, school property, or a school bus.
Patron - Barlow

C HB1171
Blood samples taken by emergency room personnel. Provides that a hospital blood sample may serve as information a law enforcement officer may use to determine probable cause for DUI arrest of a driver involved in an accident. The officer may then obtain from the treating physician, with his concurrence, another blood sample for Virginia lab analysis. The bill relieves hospital personnel from civil liability, in the absence of negligence, for following the officer's directions.
Patron - Bryant

C HB1235
Possession or transportation of firearms or concealed weapons by convicted felons; penalties. Prohibits any juvenile who was 14 years old or older when he committed a delinquent act equivalent to a felony from ever possessing, transporting, or carrying a hidden firearm. Currently, the prohibition expires when the person is 29.
Patron - Scott

C HB1309
Concealed weapon licenses issued out-of-state. Reduces the restrictions on carrying a concealed weapon as they apply to an out-of-state concealed weapon license. The bill removes the requirement that a reciprocal agreement be in place in order for Virginia to recognize such out-of-state concealed weapon licenses as valid. The bill also requires that the State Police pursue a reciprocal agreement with each other state that requires such an agreement prior to its recognition of a Virginia concealed handgun permit as valid, and that the State Police maintain an easily accessible, updated list of reciprocal states on the Virginia state website.
Patron - Abbitt

C HB1400
Possession of marijuana; suspension of drivers license. Increases the maximum sentence for possession of marijuana to a Class 1 misdemeanor and allows the court to suspend, for up to one year, the driver's license of any person convicted under this statute.
Patron - McDonnell

C HB1419
Restricted driver's license. Expands the purposes for which a person may drive when issued a restricted driver's license following a DUI and certain other offenses to include driving to a place of worship, driving an elderly parent and court-ordered visitation.
Patron - Katzen

C HB1479
Where person may carry concealed handguns. Removes the provision of the Code that prohibits carrying a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant or club for which a license to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption has been granted.
Patron - Robinson

C SB74
Possession of firearms by persons voluntarily admitted to a mental institution. Prohibits persons voluntarily admitted to a public mental health facility pursuant to § 37.1-65, or to a private mental health facility, from purchase, possession or transportation of firearms. Under current law, this prohibition only applies to persons involuntarily committed to such facilities.
Patron - Colgan

C SB75
Possession of a firearm by persons subject to protective orders. Prohibits persons subject to protective orders from possessing firearms. Currently, such persons are not prohibited from possession of a firearm, but are prohibited from purchasing or transporting firearms while the order is in effect. This bill allows the court that issued a concealed weapons permit to suspend the permit while the protective order is in effect.
Patron - Colgan

C SB82
Discharge of firearms in schools. Eliminates an exemption to the provision that anyone who willfully discharges a firearm at a school or on public property within 1,000 feet of a school is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The exemption provided that the Class 4 felony provision did not apply to discharge of a firearm at a school (or on public property within 1,000 feet of a school) if the firearm was used for lawful hunting, for a program or curriculum sponsored by or conducted with permission of the school or while in or on an established shooting range.
Patron - Howell

C SB128
Penalties for possession of certain quantities of controlled substances or marijuana. Raises the penalty for possession of large amounts of certain Class I and II controlled substances and marijuana to a mandatory, minimum term of 20 years in prison to life in prison.
Patron - Norment

C SB129
Capital murder defined; penalty. Makes it a capital offense to kill a person because of the victim's actual or perceived race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religious conviction or national origin.
Patron - Colgan

C SB130
Capital murder. Makes the killing of a person for the purpose of preventing that person from testifying in any judicial proceeding a capital offense.
Patron - Colgan

C SB145
Furnishing weapons to minors; penalty. Provides that any person who sells or provides a handgun to a minor shall be guilty of a felony, shall not be eligible for probation and shall be sentenced to a minimum, mandatory term of imprisonment of one year. The minimum, mandatory term of imprisonment shall not be suspended in whole or in part and shall be served consecutively with any other sentence. The current section of the law provides for a Class 6 felony, but does not include the minimum, mandatory sentence.
Patron - Rerras

C SB173
Hate crimes; penalty. Adds gender and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose selection for a "hate crime" involving assault or trespass amplifies the Class 1 misdemeanor or Class 6 felony penalty. The penalty includes a six-month sentence, 30 days of which are a mandatory, minimum term. The bill also expands the terroristic act reporting requirements of the State Police, and the availability of specific injunctive relief for acts motivated by hate. The bill adds the words "actual or perceived," so the offense exists notwithstanding the offender's mistaken belief about the race, ethnicity, color, gender, sexual orientation or religion of the victim.
Patron - Ticer

C SB203
Solicitation to commit felony. Increases and gradates the penalties.
Patron - Trumbo

C SB308
Civil immunity; blood tests; DUI. Expands the scope of civil immunity afforded medical personnel who withdraw blood from persons suspected of driving under the influence. Currently, no civil liability (except negligence) may attach to a medical worker who withdraws blood from a person who consents to such withdrawal. This bill expands medical personnel immunity by shielding such persons from civil liability (except negligence) in cases where a person is unable or unwilling to consent to have his blood withdrawn, provided such withdrawal is requested in writing by a law-enforcement officer.
Patron - Reynolds

C SB311
Threat to use a firearm in a school. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to communicate a threat to use a firearm to kill or do bodily injury to another in school buildings, on school grounds, on school buses, on school property, or at the location of any school-sponsored activity with the intent to cause fear in any other person.
Patron - Reynolds

C SB394
Fraudulently acquiring a confidential record. Provides that any person who, by impersonating another person, or by fraud or deceit, acquires for an improper purpose information of another that is maintained as confidential or not open to the public, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Patron - Newman

C SB425
Weapons in county facilities; ordinances. Authorizes a county with an urban county executive form of government (Fairfax) or the county manager plan of government (Arlington) to adopt an ordinance making possession of a dangerous weapon in a posted county-owned or -operated facility punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill includes exceptions for law-enforcement personnel, judges, etc.
Patron - Howell

C SB426
Charitable Gaming Commission; volunteer fire departments and rescue squads. Reduces the record-keeping burden for volunteer fire departments and rescue squads. Such organizations will be required to maintain complete records of all receipts and disbursements from their charitable gaming operations in conformance with generally accepted accounting principles. The bill also requires the Charitable Gaming Commission to audit the records maintained by such organizations every five years.
Patron - Couric

C SB508
Inhalants; selling to minors. Makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor to sell to a minor any drugs or any other noxious substances or chemicals containing any ketone, aldehydes, organic acetates, ether, chlorinated hydrocarbons or vapors that he knows or has reason to know will be inhaled or smelled by the minor to intoxicate, inebriate, excite, stupefy or to dull his brain or nervous system.
Patron - Reynolds

C SB526
DUI. Authorizes the use of hospital blood tests to establish intoxication presumptions with respect to DUI cases.
Patron - Mims

C SB556
Charitable Gaming Commission; fraternal and veterans' organizations. Provides that fraternal and veterans' organizations shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the Charitable Gaming Commission provided (i) participation in any charitable gaming conducted by such organization is limited exclusively to members of the organization and not open to the general public and (ii) no public solicitation or advertisement of charitable gaming is made by the organization. Under the bill, the organizations will remain subject to provisions of the code relating to the conduct of the games.
Patron - Potts

C SB775
Felony homicide. Provides that killing someone accidentally while in the prosecution of any Class 1 misdemeanor violation of Article 4 (§ 18.2-280 et seq.) of Chapter 7 of Title 18.2 is involuntary manslaughter and punishable as a Class 6 felony.
Patron - Stolle


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