republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1054.md

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Bill	Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty.	Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of maliciously activating a fire alarm shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such a fire alarm. Current law allows such an ordinance to impose liability for the reasonable expense of an emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism, fire bomb, other explosive device, bomb threat, or incitement of a bomb threat. The bill increases the maximum amount that a locality or volunteer emergency medical services agency may recover under such an ordinance from $1,000 to $2,500. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1054	Virginia SB 1054 (2017)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Crimes and Offenses Generally	enacted	Richard H. Stuart	3	16	6	2017-01-06	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/047f551b-ebc0-433b-b32f-4ed06820b4bc	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1054	3969d1d1650fed5eb6d765dae0b544c08a732fc77ba2609020f12fa82413c754	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1054 (2017) — Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty.

Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of maliciously activating a fire alarm shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such a fire alarm. Current law allows such an ordinance to impose liability for the reasonable expense of an emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism, fire bomb, other explosive device, bomb threat, or incitement of a bomb threat. The bill increases the maximum amount that a locality or volunteer emergency medical services agency may recover under such an ordinance from $1,000 to $2,500. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1054ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103161D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
• Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103161D introduction
• 2017-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-08 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-22 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 519 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/047f551b-ebc0-433b-b32f-4ed06820b4bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).