VA SB1181 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 24 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-27 - Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 24 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-27 - Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction. The bill provides that an assault firearm does not include any firearm that is an antique firearm, has been rendered permanently inoperable, is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action, or was manufactured before July 1, 2025. The bill also prohibits the sale of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill provides that any person who willfully and intentionally (i) sells an assault firearm to another person or (ii) purchases an assault firearm from another person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and that any person who imports, sells, barters, or transfers a large capacity ammunition feeding device is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person younger than 21 years of age to import, sell, manufacture, purchase, possess, transport, or transfer an assault firearm regardless of the date of manufacture of such assault firearm.
Title
Assault firearms/certain ammunition feeding devices; purchase, etc., prohibited, exception, penalty.
Sponsors
| Sen. Creigh Deeds [D] | Sen. Saddam Salim [D] | Sen. Lamont Bagby [D] | Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D] |
| Sen. Barbara Favola [D] | Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D] | Sen. Mamie Locke [D] | Sen. Scott Surovell [D] |
Roll Calls
2025-01-27 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) (Y: 20 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-01-23 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - Senate - Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) (Y: 10 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-23 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - Senate - Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) (Y: 10 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-27 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) |
| 2025-01-26 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1181) |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Committee substitute agreed to |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Reading of substitute waived |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181) |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 25105212D-S1 |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) |
| 2025-01-10 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181) |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100426D |
