Proposed Virginia Firearm Legislation HB853
Legislation Overview
Title: Firearms; recklessly allowing access to certain persons, penalty.
Description: Recklessly allowing access to firearms to certain persons; penalty. Provides that any person who (i) sells, barters, gives, or furnishes; (ii) has in his possession or under his control with the intent of selling, bartering, giving, or furnishing; or (iii) recklessly allows access to any firearm to any person he knows or has reason to believe is prohibited from possessing or transporting a firearm is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Under current law, such prohibition applies only to a person who (a) sells, barters, gives, or furnishes or (b) has in his possession or under his control with the intent of selling, bartering, giving, or furnishing any firearm to any person he knows is prohibited from possessing or transporting a firearm.
Session: 2020 Regular Session
Last Action: Left in Public Safety
Last Action Date: February 11, 2020
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Kathleen Murphy (D);
Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 1% (1 of 100)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Feb 11, 2020 | Left in Public Safety |
| House | Jan 7, 2020 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103801D |
| House | Jan 7, 2020 | Referred to Committee on Public Safety |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Prefiled | Jan 7, 2020 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
