Virginia House Bill 5139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on August 26 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Projecting laser at law-enforcement officer; penalties. Increases from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for any person who intentionally projects a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser at another person while knowing or having reason to know such other person is a law-enforcement or correctional officer and provides that if such intentional projection results in blindness or serious eye injury, such person is guilty of a Class 4 felony, and, upon conviction, the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of two years.

Projecting laser at law-enforcement officer; penalties.

Del. Roxann Robinson [R]	Del. John Avoli [R]	Del. Amanda Batten [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]
Del. James Edmunds [R]	Del. Hyland Fowler [R]	Del. Todd Gilbert [R]	Del. Dave LaRock [R]
Del. Daniel Marshall [R]	Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-08-26	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-26	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200677D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	57.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5139
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5139+hil