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| Bill | Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; 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 HB 1726. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 757 | Virginia SB 757 (2025) |
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Virginia SB 757 (2025) — Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; 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 HB 1726.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
- Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-12-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101472D
filing, introduction - 2024-12-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2025-01-07 Impact statement from VCSC (SB757)
- 2025-01-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 2025-01-13 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-14 Committee substitute printed 25104637D-S1
substitution - 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 2025-01-22 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-23 Rules suspended
- 2025-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-23 Passed by for the day
- 2025-01-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-01-24 Committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2025-01-24 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
substitution - 2025-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-02-04 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-04 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2025-02-05 Impact statement from VCSC (SB757)
- 2025-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-05 Committee substitute printed 25106788D-H1
substitution - 2025-02-05 Impact statement from VCSC (SB757)
- 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 2025-02-07 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-10 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-10 Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
- 2025-02-10 Passed House (95-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-11 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-11 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB757ER)
passage - 2025-02-11 Enrolled bill reprinted 25104637D
enrolled - 2025-02-11 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 2025-02-13 Signed by President
passage - 2025-02-18 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025
enrolled - 2025-02-18 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 381 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eee89823-c06e-48ce-9403-ce8795270f02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).