SB757
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility, penalty.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 12/10/2024 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101472D
- 12/10/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB757)
- 01/10/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 01/13/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/13/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/14/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25104637D-S1
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2025 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/04/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB757)
- 02/05/2025 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106788D-H1
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB757)
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/10/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/10/2025 - House: Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
- 02/10/2025 - House: Passed House (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB757ER)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Enrolled bill reprinted 25104637D
- 02/11/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB757)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025
- 02/18/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 381 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381)
