Virginia Senate Bill 805 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 9 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-01-30 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Control of firearms by localities. Removes the authority for a locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for governmental purposes; (ii) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (iii) any recreation or community center facility; or (iv) any public street, road, alley, or sidewalk or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public and is being used by or is adjacent to a permitted event or an event that would otherwise require a permit. The bill provides that any firearm received by the locality pursuant to a buy-back program shall be offered for sale by public auction or sealed bids to a person licensed as a dealer. Current law provides that any such firearm shall be destroyed by the locality unless the person surrendering the firearm requests in writing that the firearm be offered for sale. The bill also limits the authority of localities to bring lawsuits against certain firearms manufacturers and others and further provides that the right to bring any such action is reserved exclusively to the Commonwealth and shall be brought by the Attorney General.

Firearms; control by localities of possession or carrying.

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]

2023-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-30	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N)
2022-12-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2022-12-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100913D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	915	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	915.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	915.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB805
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB805+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB805F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0092+SB0805