VA SB939 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 31 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-02-13 - Passed House (96-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 31 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-02-13 - Passed House (96-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Mail theft; penalty. Creates the offense of mail theft, punishable as a Class 6 felony, for any person who (i) knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to deprive, injure, damage, or defraud another (a) takes, destroys, hides, or embezzles mail or (b) obtains any mail by fraud or deception; (ii) buys, receives, conceals, or possesses (a) mail and knows or reasonably should know that the mail was unlawfully taken or obtained, (b) any key he knows or reasonably should know is suited to any lock adopted by the United States Postal Service that provides access to any mail receptacle located in a cluster mailbox unit or other mailbox panel used for the purpose of centralized mail in any neighborhood, including any condominium or apartment complex, or (c) a counterfeit device or key designed to provide access to any lock described in clause (b); or (iii) knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to steal any mail inside damages, opens, removes, injures, vandalizes, or destroys any mail receptacle.
Title
Mail theft; definitions, penalty.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-02-13 - House - Passed House (96-Y 0-N) (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2025-02-10 - House - Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-02-03 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-30 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-29 - Senate - Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-27 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-02-10 - House - Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-02-03 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-30 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-29 - Senate - Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-27 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-13 | House | Passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-13 | House | Read third time |
| 2025-02-12 | House | Read second time |
| 2025-02-10 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-02-06 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-02-06 | House | Read first time |
| 2025-02-06 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2025-02-03 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB939) |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Reading of substitute waived |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Courts of Justice Substitute rejected |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB939) |
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 25106421D-S2 |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB939) |
| 2025-01-27 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 25106095D-S1 |
| 2025-01-27 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB939) |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | Impact statement from VCSC (SB939) |
| 2025-01-06 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-01-06 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102103D |
