HB1726
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; definitions, contracted defense facility, penalty.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 24, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374)
Chief Patron:
Cia Price (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty.
Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains or attempts to obtain any videographic or still image that contains or reveals any controlled technical information located within a contracted defense facility, as ... (More) those terms are defined in the bill. The bill also provides that the owner or operator of a contracted defense facility and its employees shall be immune from criminal prosecution and civil liability as a result of preventing, stopping, deterring, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to prevent, stop, deter, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system from entering the property of such contracted defense facility or from stopping, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to stop, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system that has entered such property, provided that such action does not result in injury to any person.The bill also directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to (i) analyze existing law to identify statutes to amend to provide additional protection from trespass with an unmanned aircraft system to critical infrastructure or public services or utilities, as defined and described in relevant law, and (ii) recommend amendments to existing law or new legislation it deems necessary to provide such protection to such infrastructure or public services or utilities. The Virginia State Crime Commission shall submit such recommendations to the General Assembly by November 1, 2025. (Less)
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Bill History
- 01/04/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104141D
- 01/04/2025 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/08/2025 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB1726)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 01/30/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 01/31/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106135D-H1
- 02/02/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/05/2025 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB1726)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106977D-S1
- 02/11/2025 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB1726)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/20/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1726ER)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/24/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
- 03/05/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025
- 03/05/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 374 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374)
