Trigger activators; prohibition, penalty.
Summary
Trigger activators; prohibition; penalty. Prohibitsthe manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession,transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, defined in thebill as (i) a device designed to be attached to a semi-automaticfirearm, which allows the firearm to discharge two or more shotsin a burst by activating the device, including a bump-fire deviceor a binary trigger, but does not convert the semi-automatic firearminto a machine gun or (ii) a manual or power-driven trigger activatingdevice designed so that when attached to a semi-automatic firearmit increases the rate of fire of that firearm, including a triggercrank, but does not convert the semiautomatic firearm into a machine gun. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Nov 18, 2019
Signed Mar 31, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 10, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 26, 2020
How they voted
21–18
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 10, 2020
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
94% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
32
Key actions
3
Committee
9
Mar 31, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 527 (effective 7/1/20)
Feb 26, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Passed House (55-Y 45-N)
Feb 21, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from Public Safety (14-Y 8-N)
Feb 18, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
Feb 10, 2020
Senate · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
Feb 7, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB14S1
Feb 7, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Committee substitute agreed to 20106402D-S1
Feb 5, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Feb 3, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Feb 3, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
Jan 8, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
Nov 18, 2019
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
Nov 18, 2019
Senate · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100506D
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
DS
Dick Saslaw
DDemocratic
Co
Adam Ebbin
DDemocratic
Co
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
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