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Bill	Trigger activators; prohibition, penalty.	Trigger activators; prohibition; penalty. Prohibitsthe manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession,transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, defined in thebill as (i) a device designed to be attached to a semi-automaticfirearm, which allows the firearm to discharge two or more shotsin a burst by activating the device, including a bump-fire deviceor a binary trigger, but does not convert the semi-automatic firearminto a machine gun or (ii) a manual or power-driven trigger activatingdevice designed so that when attached to a semi-automatic firearmit increases the rate of fire of that firearm, including a triggercrank, but does not convert the semiautomatic firearm into a machine gun. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 14	Virginia SB 14 (2020)	bill		enacted	Richard L. Saslaw	4	32	6	2019-11-18	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/9deff9cd-22cd-4aba-9c0b-ccd8b619f469	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB14	b09292b9390b90c9c16ba5e12d435cf8be4d03649b1d71d7ba83cd6b90f56821	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 14 (2020) — Trigger activators; prohibition, penalty.

Trigger activators; prohibition; penalty. Prohibitsthe manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession,transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, defined in thebill as (i) a device designed to be attached to a semi-automaticfirearm, which allows the firearm to discharge two or more shotsin a burst by activating the device, including a bump-fire deviceor a binary trigger, but does not convert the semi-automatic firearminto a machine gun or (ii) a manual or power-driven trigger activatingdevice designed so that when attached to a semi-automatic firearmit increases the rate of fire of that firearm, including a triggercrank, but does not convert the semiautomatic firearm into a machine gun. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB14ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from VCSC (SB14) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from VCSC (SB14S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Public Safety (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) — 21–18 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) — 54–45 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Richard L. Saslaw — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100506D introduction
• 2019-11-18 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-11-19 Impact statement from VCSC (SB14)
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB14)
• 2020-02-03 Committee substitute printed 20106402D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-03 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-03 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Impact statement from VCSC (SB14S1)
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB14S1)
• 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 20106402D-S1
• 2020-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB14S1
• 2020-02-10 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-18 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-18 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-18 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Reported from Public Safety (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-26 Passed House (55-Y 45-N) passage
• 2020-02-26 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled
• 2020-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB14ER)
• 2020-03-03 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 527 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9deff9cd-22cd-4aba-9c0b-ccd8b619f469. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).