Virginia Senate Bill 197 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-27 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Oral threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family or to persons on school property; penalty. Provides that any person who orally threatens another person in person to kill or do bodily injury to such other person or any member of the other person's family, and the threat places such other person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury to himself or his family member, is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The bill also provides that any person who orally threatens to kill or do bodily harm to another person in person (i) on the grounds or premises of any elementary, middle, or secondary school property; (ii) at any elementary, middle, or secondary school-sponsored event; or (iii) on a school bus to any person or persons is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

Oral threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family, etc.; penalty.

Sen. John Cosgrove [R]

2020-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-27	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2019-12-29	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2019-12-29	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103754D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	60	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB197
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB197+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0081+SB0197