VA SB986 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 20 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 20 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Assault and battery; sports official; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to commit an assault or assault and battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such individual is a sports official, defined in the bill, for an entity sponsoring an interscholastic or intercollegiate sports event or any person performing services as a sports official for a public entity or a private, nonprofit organization that sponsors an amateur sports event who is engaged in the performance of his duties. The bill requires such person, upon conviction, be prohibited from attending any such sports event operated by the entity or organization that employed such sports official for a period of not less than six months as a term and condition of such sentence.
Title
Assault and battery; Class 1 misdemeanor against sports official.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-21 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-15 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-15 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-15 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-10 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB986) |
| 2025-01-07 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-01-07 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101551D |
