Proposed Virginia Firearm Legislation SB310
Legislation Overview
Title: Plastic firearms and unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, sale, etc., penalties.
Subject: Appropriations: Crimes and Offenses Generally: Firearms
Description: Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm with a major component, as defined in the bill, that when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at airports for detecting plastic firearms. Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm with a major component, as defined in the bill, that when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at airports for detecting plastic firearms. The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or receiver unless the party selling, offering to sell, transferring, or purchasing the unfinished frame or receiver is a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer or the unfinished frame or receiver is required by federal law to be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number by a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer.
Session: 2022 Regular Session
Last Action: Tabled in Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)
Last Action Date: February 25, 2022
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Adam Ebbin (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 3% (1 of 40)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Feb 25, 2022 | Tabled in Public Safety (12-Y 10-N) |
| House | Feb 22, 2022 | Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #1 |
| House | Feb 21, 2022 | Referred to Committee on Public Safety |
| House | Feb 21, 2022 | Read first time |
| House | Feb 21, 2022 | Placed on Calendar |
| Senate | Feb 15, 2022 | Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) |
| Senate | Feb 14, 2022 | Reading of substitute waived |
| Senate | Feb 14, 2022 | Read second time |
| Senate | Feb 14, 2022 | Committee substitute agreed to 22105984D-S1 |
| Senate | Feb 14, 2022 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB310S1 |
| Senate | Feb 11, 2022 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
| Senate | Feb 10, 2022 | Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N) |
| Senate | Feb 7, 2022 | Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) |
| Senate | Feb 7, 2022 | Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations |
| Senate | Feb 7, 2022 | Committee substitute printed 22105984D-S1 |
| Senate | Jan 31, 2022 | Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law |
| Senate | Jan 11, 2022 | Referred to Committee on the Judiciary |
| Senate | Jan 11, 2022 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103963D |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Comm Sub | Feb 7, 2022 | state link | bill text |
| Prefiled | Jan 11, 2022 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| Substitute for SB310 for S-Judiciary | Substitute for SB310 for S-Judiciary | Feb 7, 2022 | State Link | amendment text | No |
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
| Description | Vote Date | Yea Votes | Nay Votes | No Votes | Absent | Passed |
| Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) | 02/7/2022 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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| Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N) | 02/10/2022 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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| Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) | 02/11/2022 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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| Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) | 02/15/2022 | 22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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| House: Tabled in Public Safety (12-Y 10-N) | 02/25/2022 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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Link: link to state bill page
