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<br><center><b>SENATE BILL NO. 1</b></center>

<center>AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE</center>

<center>(Proposed by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice</center>

<center>on January 15, 2018)</center>

<center>(Patrons Prior to Substitute--Senators Ebbin, Favola [SB 113],
and Deeds [SB 676])</center>

<i>A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section
numbered <a href="http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/18.2-308.5:1">18.2-308.5:1</a>, relating to a prohibition against trigger activators
designed to increase the rate of fire of firearms; penalty.</i>

<p>Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:</p>

<p>1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section
numbered <a href="http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/18.2-308.5:1">18.2-308.5:1</a> as follows:</p>

<p><i class=new>&sect;<a href="http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/18.2-308.5:1">18.2-308.5:1</a>. Sale or possession of trigger activators
designed to increase rate of fire of firearms; penalty.</i></p>

<p><i class=new>A. It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, import,
sell, offer for sale, possess, transfer, or transport in the Commonwealth a
trigger activator, including a trigger crank or a bump-fire device, that is
designed to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but does not
convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun. </i></p>

<p><i class=new>B. A violation of this section shall be punishable as a
Class 1 misdemeanor.</i></p>

<p>2. That the provisions of this act may result in a net
increase in periods of imprisonment or commitment. Pursuant to &sect;<a href="http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/30-19.1:4">30-19.1:4</a>, the
estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is $0 for periods of
imprisonment in state adult correctional facilities and cannot be determined
for periods of commitment to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.</p>