Communicating threats of death or bodily injury to a person with intent to intimidate; penalty.
Summary
Communicating threats of death or bodily injuryto a person at any place of assembly, any building or other structure,or any means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who either (i) communicates to anotherby any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, shoot, stab, or inany other manner cause death or bodily injury to persons at any placeof assembly, any building or other structure, or any means of masstransportation or (ii) communicates to another by any means information,knowing the same to be false, about any plan to bomb, burn, destroy,shoot, stab, or in any other manner cause death or bodily injury topersons at any place of assembly, any building or other structure,or any means of mass transportation and makes either such communication with the intent to (a) intimidate a civilian population at large,(b) influence the conduct or activities of the government of theUnited States or any state or local government through intimidation,(c) compel the emergency evacuation of any place of assembly, anybuilding or other structure, or any means of mass transportationthrough intimidation, or (d) place any person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury through intimidation is guilty of a Class5 felony. The bill provides that any person younger than 18 yearsof age who commits such offense is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Mar 2021
Introduced Jan 13, 2021
Signed Mar 11, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 16, 2021 · House of Delegates Feb 5, 2021
How they voted
31–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 33
Feb 16, 2021
D
Democratic17
94% Yea
R
Republican16
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
33
Key actions
11
Committee
10
Mar 11, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 83 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 17, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (34-Y 3-N)
upper
Feb 16, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 16, 2021
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (31-0-2)
senate
Feb 10, 2021
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 10, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 2-N)
upper
Feb 5, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Feb 5, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2021
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2194H1
lower
Feb 4, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 21104392D-H1
lower
Feb 3, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2021
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 29, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 13, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101561D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jay Leftwich
RRepublican
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