---
type: "Bill"
title: "Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 210"
citation: "Virginia SB 210 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Russet Perry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b824872-686f-45a9-8803-c55a126ebde9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB210"
source_hash: "0b8e159e39c9fa3ddf022ced8a77c8271d6bc622ee35261e6f32972bdbae401a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 210 (2024) — Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty.

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.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0164** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0164)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106016D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB210S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 24107820D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB210H1)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101801D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB210)
5. **SB210ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB210ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) — **12–3** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (28-Y 11-N) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 4-N) — **11–4** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (89-Y 2-N) — **88–2** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) — **28–12** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Russet Perry — primary (person)
- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101801D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Impact statement from VCSC (SB210)
- **2024-01-10** Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
- **2024-01-22** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Committee substitute printed 24106016D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-22** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB210)
- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from VCSC (SB210S1)
- **2024-01-31** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB210S1)
- **2024-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to 24106016D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB210S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-05** Read third time and passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-16** Reported from Public Safety with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Committee substitute printed 24107820D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB210H1)
- **2024-02-20** Impact statement from VCSC (SB210H1)
- **2024-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Committee substitute agreed to 24107820D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-21** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB210H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-21** Passed House with substitute (89-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** VOTE: Passage (89-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-23** House substitute agreed to by Senate (28-Y 11-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** Title replaced 24107820D-H1
- **2024-02-28** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-28** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB210ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-02** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB210ER)
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 164 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b824872-686f-45a9-8803-c55a126ebde9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).