republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1726.md

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Bill	Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; definitions, contracted defense facility, penalty.	Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains or attempts to obtain any videographic or still image that contains or reveals any controlled technical information located within a contracted defense facility, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill also provides that the owner or operator of a contracted defense facility and its employees shall be immune from criminal prosecution and civil liability as a result of preventing, stopping, deterring, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to prevent, stop, deter, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system from entering the property of such contracted defense facility or from stopping, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to stop, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system that has entered such property, provided that such action does not result in injury to any person. This bill is identical to SB 757.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1726	Virginia HB 1726 (2025)	bill		enacted	Marcia S. "Cia" Price	6	41	9	2025-01-04	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/7dd0a7ec-fa55-446a-b1b6-7f710a5c220f	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1726	6580648e44bef3fed870a5e0cc6dc7747f54b652791de67e2716db4489e7fce7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1726 (2025) — Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; definitions, contracted defense facility, penalty.

Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains or attempts to obtain any videographic or still image that contains or reveals any controlled technical information located within a contracted defense facility, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill also provides that the owner or operator of a contracted defense facility and its employees shall be immune from criminal prosecution and civil liability as a result of preventing, stopping, deterring, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to prevent, stop, deter, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system from entering the property of such contracted defense facility or from stopping, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to stop, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system that has entered such property, provided that such action does not result in injury to any person. This bill is identical to SB 757.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Courts of Justice Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. HCJ Sub: Criminal Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Briana D. Sewell — cosponsor (person)
• C. Todd Gilbert — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104141D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1726)
• 2025-01-28 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106135D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1726)
• 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25106977D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-11 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1726)
• 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-14 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1726ER) passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-23 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
• 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 374 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7dd0a7ec-fa55-446a-b1b6-7f710a5c220f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).