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type: "Bill"
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title: "Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty."
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description: "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"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "SB 1054"
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citation: "Virginia SB 1054 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Crimes and Offenses Generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-06"
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last_action: "2017-03-16"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/047f551b-ebc0-433b-b32f-4ed06820b4bc"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1054"
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source_hash: "3969d1d1650fed5eb6d765dae0b544c08a732fc77ba2609020f12fa82413c754"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 1054 (2017) — Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty.
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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
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0519)
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2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1054ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1054ER)
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3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103161D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1054)
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## Votes
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- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
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- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103161D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-08** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
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- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
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- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
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- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 519 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/047f551b-ebc0-433b-b32f-4ed06820b4bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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