Bill Text: VA SB345 | 2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Criminal street gang; recruitment of persons, penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-10 - House: Left in Appropriations [SB345 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-SB345-Comm_Sub.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 345 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee for Courts of Justice on February 27, 2012) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator McDougle) A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-46.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to recruitment of criminal street gang members by telephone or electronic device; penalty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 18.2-46.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§18.2-46.3. Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty.

A. Any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or otherwise causes or attempts to cause another to actively participate in or become a member of what he knows to be a criminal street gang is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor 6 felony. Any person age 18 years or older who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a juvenile to actively participate in or become a member of what he knows to be a criminal street gang is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

B. Any person who, in order to encourage an individual (a) to join a criminal street gang, (b) to remain as a participant in or a member of a criminal street gang, or (c) to submit to a demand made by a criminal street gang to commit a felony violation of this title, (i) uses force against the individual or a member of his family or household or (ii) threatens force against the individual or a member of his family or household, which threat would place any person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury, is guilty of a Class 6 5 felony. The definition of "family or household member" set forth in §16.1-228 applies to this section.

2.  That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment or commitment. Pursuant to § 30-19.1:4, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is at least $163,504 for periods of imprisonment in state adult correctional facilities and cannot be determined for periods of commitment to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.