republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-210.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 210	Virginia SB 210 (2024)	bill		enacted	Russet Perry	5	42	7	2024-01-08	2024-03-26	openstates	ocd-bill/1b824872-686f-45a9-8803-c55a126ebde9	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB210	0b8e159e39c9fa3ddf022ced8a77c8271d6bc622ee35261e6f32972bdbae401a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Committee substitute printed 24106016D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24107820D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101801D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB210ER (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/1b824872-686f-45a9-8803-c55a126ebde9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).