2023 Priority Bills
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Support guns | HB 1515 | Auto sear; prohibition on use penalty.
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Makes it a Class 2 felony to possess or use an auto sear in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a crime of violence.
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Tabled | 1/30/23 | ||
Support guns | HB 2240 | Prohibiting the sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, large-capacity firearm magazines.
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Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation of this provision of the bill is a Class 6 felony
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PBI | 1/30/23 | ||
Support guns | HB 2288 | Assault firearms; purchase; age requirement; penalty.
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Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill also expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.
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Tabled | 1/30/23 | ||
Support guns | HB 2350 | Firearms; storage in residence where minor present, penalty.
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Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet.
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Tabled | 1/30/23 | ||
Support guns | SB 909 | Firearms; transfers to another person from a prohibited person.
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Ensures that the firearms required to be relinquished under a protective order or assault and battery of a household member are actually relinquished.
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Tabled | Passed | 2/10/23 | |
Support guns | SB 918 | Assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices; carrying, sale, transfer, etc.
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Prohibits the sale of an assault firearm and a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as those terms are defined in the bill.
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Incorp | 1/24/23 | ||
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SB 1139 | Firearms; storage in residence where minor present, penalty.
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Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet. ...
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Tabled | Passed | 2/10/23 | |
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SB 1181 | Unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; sale, transfer, or purchase, penalty.
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Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor... for any person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or receiver ...
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Tabled | Passed | 2/10/23 | |
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SB 1192 | Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, penalty.
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Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public. ...
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Tabled | Passed | 2/10/23 | |
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SB 1283 | Assault firearms; age requirement; penalty.
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Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.
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Incorp | 1/24/23 | ||
Support guns | SB 1382 | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding.
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Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction.
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Tabled | Passed | 2/10/23 | |
Oppose guns | HB 1393 | Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required.
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Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
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Left | 2/8/23 | ||
Oppose guns | HB 1420 | Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required.
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Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
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Left | 2/8/23 |
Note: The Rules Committees of both Chambers have limited the number of bills that individual members may introduce this Session: Senators have bill limits of 26, and Delegates have bill limits of 15.