SB1135
Catalytic converters; unlawful possession, purchase, or sale, penalty.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Possession, purchase, or sale of catalytic converters; penalty.
Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to sell, offer for sale, or purchase a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle exhaust system that has been detached from a motor vehicle, except when such sale, offer for sale, or purchase is made to or by a scrap metal ... (More) purchaser that has adhered to the required compliance provisions. The bill provides that a judge or jury may make a permissive inference that a person who is in possession of a catalytic converter that has been removed from a motor vehicle is presumed to have criminally obtained such catalytic converter unless the person is an authorized agent or employee acting in the performance of his official duties for a motor vehicle dealer, motor vehicle garage or repair shop, or salvage yard that is licensed or registered by the Commonwealth or a person who possesses vehicle registration documentation indicating that the catalytic converter in the person's possession is the result of a replacement of a catalytic converter from a vehicle registered in that person's name. This bill incorporates SB 1117 and is identical to HB 2372. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2023 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102054D
- 01/10/2023 - Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/13/2023 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1135)
- 01/15/2023 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1135)
- 01/23/2023 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/23/2023 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/23/2023 - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2023 - Senate: Incorporates SB1117 (Stanley)
- 01/23/2023 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 23104418D-S1
- 01/23/2023 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/25/2023 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1135S1)
- 01/25/2023 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/2023 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/2023 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/27/2023 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/27/2023 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 23104418D-S1
- 01/27/2023 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1135S1
- 01/28/2023 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1135S1)
- 01/30/2023 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/2023 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/2023 - House: Read first time
- 02/08/2023 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/13/2023 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 4-N)
- 02/15/2023 - House: Read second time
- 02/16/2023 - House: Read third time
- 02/16/2023 - House: Passed House (75-Y 24-N)
- 02/16/2023 - House: VOTE: Passage (75-Y 24-N)
- 02/21/2023 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/21/2023 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1135ER)
- 02/21/2023 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/2023 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1135ER)
- 02/24/2023 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/2023 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/2023 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/21/2023 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 91 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/21/2023 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091)
