Virginia House Bill 295 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Battery; school sports officials; penalty. Treats persons serving as a sports official for an interscholastic sporting event involving a public or private elementary or secondary school who volunteer their services or are compensated by an entity other than a school as an employee of a school. Current law provides that battery against a school employee is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor with a 15-day sentence, two days of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of confinement, or, if the battery was committed by the use of a firearm or other weapon prohibited on school property, a six-month mandatory minimum term of confinement.

School sports officials; penalty for battery against official.

Del. Israel O'Quinn [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2016-01-04	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-04	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103077D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB295
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB295+hil