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type: "Bill"
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title: "Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty."
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description: "Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of maliciously activating a fire alarm shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such a fire alarm. Current law allows such an ordinance to impose liability for the reasonable expense of an emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism, fire bomb, other explosive device, bomb threat, or incitement of a bomb threat. The bill increases the maximum amount that a locality or volunteer emergency medical services agency may recover under such an ordinance from $1,000 to $2,500. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1404"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1404 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Crimes and Offenses Generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Cole"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2016-09-08"
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last_action: "2017-02-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59a6b83c-beab-434d-aed7-1b2fe20e63b0"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1404"
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source_hash: "bc6a86bbb5bd5d038855badf5592e9710dd13158edc7952d023b03b667fbf08e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1404 (2017) — Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty.
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Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of maliciously activating a fire alarm shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such a fire alarm. Current law allows such an ordinance to impose liability for the reasonable expense of an emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism, fire bomb, other explosive device, bomb threat, or incitement of a bomb threat. The bill increases the maximum amount that a locality or volunteer emergency medical services agency may recover under such an ordinance from $1,000 to $2,500. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0098)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1404ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1404ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100210D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1404)
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4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105240D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1404S1)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate with substitute — **38–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105240D-S1 — **93–2** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
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- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
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- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-09-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100210D `introduction`
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- **2016-09-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-08** Reading of substitute waived
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- **2017-02-08** Committee substitute agreed to 17105240D-S1
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- **2017-02-08** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1404S1
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- **2017-02-10** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-10** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105240D-S1 (93-Y 2-N)
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- **2017-02-13** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-13** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
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- **2017-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
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- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 98 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59a6b83c-beab-434d-aed7-1b2fe20e63b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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