Virginia House Bill 1147 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Threats to members of the General Assembly; obstruction of justice; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony to knowingly and willfully send, deliver or convey, or cause to be sent, delivered, or conveyed, to a current member of the General Assembly or his immediate family any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon a current member of the General Assembly or his immediate family, whether such threat be oral or written. The bill also provides that any person who without just cause knowingly obstructs any elected official in the performance of his duties as such or fails or refuses without just cause to cease such obstruction when requested to do so by such elected official is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

General Assembly; threats to members, obstruction of justice, penalties.

Del. AC Cordoza [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2024-01-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102656D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	460	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	60.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	60.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1147
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1147+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB1147F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB1147F122+PDF