Virginia House Bill 2493 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Threats against public officials. Provides that any person who (i) threatens to kill or injure another person or to commit violence or injury against that person or his property, or to unlawfully trespass upon his property and (ii) knows or has reason to know that such other person is a judge, a law-enforcement officer, a correctional officer as defined in §53.1-1, a person employed by the Department of Corrections directly involved in the care, treatment or supervision of inmates in the custody of the Department, a firefighter as defined in §65.2-102, or a volunteer firefighter or lifesaving or rescue squad member, engaged in the performance of his public duties, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Public officials; any person who threatens to kill or injure is guilty of Class 1 misdemeanor.

Del. Ron Villanueva [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2011-02-02		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2011-01-28		House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2011-01-21		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-01-21		House: Presented and ordered printed 11102954D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	60	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB2493
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2493+hil