VA SB757 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on January 24 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-02-10 - Passed House (95-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 24 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-02-10 - Passed House (95-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains or attempts to obtain any videographic or still image that contains or reveals any controlled technical information located within a contracted defense facility, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill also provides that the owner or operator of a contracted defense facility and its employees shall be immune from criminal prosecution and civil liability as a result of preventing, stopping, deterring, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to prevent, stop, deter, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system from entering the property of such contracted defense facility or from stopping, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to stop, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system that has entered such property, provided that such action does not result in injury to any person.
Title
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility, penalty.
Sponsors
| Sen. Mamie Locke [D] | Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D] | Sen. Christie New Craig [R] | Sen. Bill DeSteph [R] |
| Sen. Russet Perry [D] |
Roll Calls
2025-02-10 - House - Passed House (95-Y 0-N) (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2025-02-05 - House - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-27 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 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 (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-13 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-05 - House - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-27 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 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 (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-13 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-10 | House | Passed House (95-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Courts of Justice Substitute rejected |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Read third time |
| 2025-02-07 | House | Read second time |
| 2025-02-07 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757) |
| 2025-02-05 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB757) |
| 2025-02-05 | House | Committee substitute printed 25106788D-H1 |
| 2025-02-05 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-05 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB757) |
| 2025-02-04 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-02-04 | House | Read first time |
| 2025-02-04 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2025-01-27 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Committee substitute agreed to |
| 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 (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757) |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 25104637D-S1 |
| 2025-01-13 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-10 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757) |
| 2025-01-07 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB757) |
| 2024-12-10 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2024-12-10 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101472D |
