SB 210 Virginia Senate · 2024 Regular Session

Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty.

Summary
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger activator, for use in converting a semi-automatic firearm to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for the forfeiture of any auto sear concealed, possessed, transported, or carried in violation of the prohibition. This bill is identical to HB 22.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Signed into Law
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 8, 2024 Signed Mar 26, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Feb 5, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 21, 2024

How they voted

2812
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 5, 2024
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
7 Yea 12 Nay
63% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
42
Key actions
12
Committee
8
Mar 26, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 164 (effective 7/1/24)
executive
Mar 2, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 28, 2024
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB210ER)
upper
Feb 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Passage (89-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed House with substitute (89-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
lower
Feb 5, 2024
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (28-Y 12-N)
upper
Jan 31, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N)
upper
Jan 22, 2024
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Jan 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 4-N)
upper
Jan 10, 2024
Upper · Passed
Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
upper
Jan 8, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

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