Virginia Senate Bill 69

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 15 2020 - 50% progression
Action: 2020-02-25 - House requested conference committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases; penalty. Prohibits any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and establishes such an offense as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill exempts from this provision (i) persons who have been issued a certificate by the Department of State Police under certain circumstances and with an enhanced background check, (ii) law-enforcement agencies and officers, (iii) state and local correctional facilities, (iv) licensed private security companies, (v) persons who hold a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit, (vi) persons whose handgun has been stolen or irretrievably lost or who are trading in a handgun, (vii) purchases of handguns in a private sale, and (viii) purchases of antique firearms.

Handguns; limitation on purchases, penalty.

Sen. Mamie Locke [D]	Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]
Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2020-02-24 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) (Y: 0 N: 39 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 47-N) (Y: 53 N: 46 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-14 - House - House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N) (Y: 13 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 20 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional readings dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N) (Y: 9 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-25	House	House requested conference committee
2020-02-25	House	House insisted on substitute
2020-02-24	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
2020-02-21	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-19	House	VOTE: Passage (53-Y 47-N)
2020-02-19	House	Passed House with substitute (53-Y 47-N)
2020-02-19	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB69H1
2020-02-19	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20108288D-H1
2020-02-19	House	Read third time
2020-02-18	House	Read second time
2020-02-14	House	Committee substitute printed 20108288D-H1
2020-02-14	House	Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-01-16	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
2020-01-15	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB69S1
2020-01-15	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20105654D-S1
2020-01-15	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-01-15	Senate	Read second time
2020-01-14	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-01-13	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20105654D-S1
2020-01-13	Senate	Incorporates SB22 (Saslaw)
2020-01-13	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2019-11-22	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2019-11-22	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101200D

SB22 (Similar To) 2020-01-13 - Incorporated by Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	308.2:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB69
Text	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB69+hil
Text	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB69S1+hil
Text	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB69H1+hil
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0009+SB0069
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0035SB0069+SB0069
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0050SB0069+SB0069
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H15V0091+SB0069
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1024+SB0069
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0855SB0069+SB0069