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type: "Bill"
title: "Minors; allowing access to firearms, Class 1 misdemeanor."
description: "Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 14 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Current law provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any child under the age of 14 is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. This bill incorporates HB 72 and HB 463."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1083"
citation: "Virginia HB 1083 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43a139e8-0621-42dd-90c2-faa07353da26"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1083"
source_hash: "741bd746237193256717133e7125c464caf34ba623a0a7926d6c40899895dd53"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1083 (2020) — Minors; allowing access to firearms, Class 1 misdemeanor.
Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 14 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Current law provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any child under the age of 14 is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. This bill incorporates HB 72 and HB 463.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0742)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1083ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1083ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1083S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1083S1)
4. **Impact statement from VCSC (HB1083)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1083)
5. **Impact statement from VCSC (HB1083H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1083H1)
## Votes
- Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N) — **2218** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — **139** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (54-Y 46-N) — **5346** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N) — **5443** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — **96** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102956D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Impact statement from VCSC (HB1083)
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1083)
- **2020-01-24** Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Committee substitute printed 20106627D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-24** Incorporates HB463 (Hayes)
- **2020-01-24** Incorporates HB72 (Kory)
- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from VCSC (HB1083H1)
- **2020-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29** Passed by temporarily
- **2020-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 20106627D-H1
- **2020-01-29** Pending question ordered
- **2020-01-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1083H1
- **2020-01-30** Read third time and passed House (54-Y 46-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-30** VOTE: Passage (54-Y 46-N)
- **2020-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-01-31** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB1083H1)
- **2020-02-24** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute printed 20108859D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1083S1)
- **2020-02-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-26** Committee substitute agreed to 20108859D-S1
- **2020-02-26** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1083S1
- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-28** Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108859D-S1 (55-Y 43-N)
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N)
- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB1083ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 742 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43a139e8-0621-42dd-90c2-faa07353da26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).