Virginia House Bill 5143 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on August 27 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Assault and battery; penalty. Increases the penalty for committing an assault or an assault and battery against a judge; magistrate; law-enforcement officer; correctional officer; person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inmates; firefighter; or volunteer firefighter or any emergency medical services personnel from a Class 6 felony with a mandatory term of confinement of six months to a Class 5 felony with a mandatory term of confinement of one year. The bill also provides that if such violation occurs during a state of emergency then such person is guilty of a Class 3 felony with a mandatory term of confinement of two years.

Assault and battery; increases penalty for committing against a judge, law-enforcement officer, etc.

Del. Ronnie Campbell [R]	Del. John Avoli [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Charles Poindexter [R]
Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-08-27	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-27	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200826D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5143
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5143+hil