Virginia Senate Bill 1444 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 2 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-21 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Restricted ammunition; use or attempted use in the commission of a crime; penalty. Provides that restricted firearms ammunition means any ammunition that has been banned or prohibited from commercial sale by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or under federal law. Under current law, restricted firearms ammunition was defined as ammunition that are: (i) coated with or contain, in whole or in part, polytetrafluorethylene or a similar product, (ii) commonly known as "KTW" bullets or "French Arcanes," or (iii) any cartridges containing bullets coated with a plastic substance with other than lead or lead alloy cores, jacketed bullets with other than lead or lead alloy cores, or cartridges of which the bullet itself is wholly comprised of a metal or metal alloy other than lead.

Restricted firearm ammunition; use or attempted use in the commission of a crime, penalty.

Sen. Benton Chafin [R]

2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-21	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2017-02-13	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-02-08	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2017-02-06	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-02-06	House	Read first time
2017-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-02-02	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-02	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1444S1
2017-02-02	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 17104710D-S1
2017-02-02	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2017-02-02	Senate	Read second time
2017-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute printed 17104710D-S1
2017-01-31	Senate	Reported from Finance with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
2017-01-18	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2017-01-18	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2017-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-13	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 17103736D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	308.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1444
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1444+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1444S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03V0081+SB1444
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S05V0132+SB1444
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0229SB1444+SB1444
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0247SB1444+SB1444
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0248SB1444+SB1444