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| Bill | Military honor guards and veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities, exception. | Military honor guards and veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities; exception. Exempts members of a lawfully recognized military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization, and members of a veterans service organization that is congressionally chartered or officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, when such member is participating in a training or educational exercise, funeral, or public ceremony on behalf of such military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization or veterans service organization, from the crime of unlawful paramilitary activity unless such member engages in such activity with malicious intent. This bill is identical to HB 17. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 618 | Virginia SB 618 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 618 (2022) — Military honor guards and veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities, exception.
Military honor guards and veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities; exception. Exempts members of a lawfully recognized military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization, and members of a veterans service organization that is congressionally chartered or officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, when such member is participating in a training or educational exercise, funeral, or public ceremony on behalf of such military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization or veterans service organization, from the crime of unlawful paramilitary activity unless such member engages in such activity with malicious intent. This bill is identical to HB 17.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0037 (committee substitute) — source
- Presented and ordered printed 22104199D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22104199D-E (committee substitute) — source
- SB618ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-12 Presented and ordered printed 22104199D
introduction - 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB618)
- 2022-02-09 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-09 Reported from Judiciary with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-11 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-11 Reading of amendment waived
- 2022-02-11 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2022-02-11 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB618E
- 2022-02-11 Printed as engrossed 22104199D-E
- 2022-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB618E)
- 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-21 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2022-02-21 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-23 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-24 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-24 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-28 Enrolled
- 2022-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB618ER)
- 2022-02-28 Signed by President
- 2022-02-28 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-01 Approved by Governor-Chapter 37 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d93906f-b992-46c3-b5df-3ad691378160. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).