Proposed Virginia Firearm Legislation SB1163
Legislation Overview
Title: Firearms; trigger activators designed to increase the rate of fire, prohibition, penalty.
Description: Trigger activators designed to increase the rate of fire of firearms; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, which includes a trigger crank or bump-fire device, that is designed to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but does not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony.
Session: 2019 Regular Session
Last Action: Left in Finance
Last Action Date: February 6, 2019
Sponsors
Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.
7 sponsors: Richard Saslaw (D); John Edwards (D); Barbara Favola (D); Janet Howell (D); Dave Marsden (D); Jeremy McPike (D); Scott Surovell (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 18% (7 of 40)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 6, 2019 | Left in Finance |
| Senate | Jan 16, 2019 | Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| Senate | Jan 16, 2019 | Rereferred to Finance |
| Senate | Jan 2, 2019 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100713D |
| Senate | Jan 2, 2019 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Prefiled | Jan 2, 2019 | 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
| Description | Vote Date | Yea Votes | Nay Votes | No Votes | Absent | Passed |
| Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) | 01/16/2019 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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Link: link to state bill page
