Virginia House Bill 983 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-29 - Stricken from docket by Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms magazines; fine. Provides that any person, corporation, or other entity that manufactures, imports, possesses, purchases, sells, or transfers any large capacity magazine shall be subject to a $250 fine. The bill provides exceptions to the prohibition. The bill provides that a registrant is limited to three large capacity magazines and must otherwise dispose of all magazines in excess of the limit. The bill requires the Department of State Police to provide a means to register a large capacity magazine and, at the time of registration, to permanently mark such magazine for the purpose of identification and maintain records regarding such identification information. Finally, the bill provides that any large capacity magazine that is possessed in violation of law is subject to forfeiture to the Commonwealth.

Firearms magazines, certain; prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., prohibited, penalty.

Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-29	House	Stricken from docket by Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
2016-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote
2016-01-27	House	Assigned MPPS sub: #1
2016-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
2016-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103949D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	309.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	386.29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB983
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB983+hil