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2019 SESSION
19103698DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-60 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-60. Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family; threats to commit serious bodily harm to persons on school property; penalty.
A. 1. Any person who knowingly communicates, in a writing, including an
electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic
message, a threat to kill or do bodily injury to a person, regarding that
person or any member of his family, and the threat places such person in
reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury to himself or his family
member, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. However, any person who violates this
subsection with the intent to commit an act of terrorism as defined in §
18.2-46.4 is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
2. Any person who communicates a threat,
orally or in a
writing, including an electronically transmitted communication producing a
visual or electronic message, to kill or do bodily harm, (i) on the grounds or
premises of any elementary, middle or secondary school property, (ii) at any
elementary, middle or secondary school-sponsored event or (iii) on a school bus
to any person or persons, regardless of whether the person who is the object of
the threat actually receives the threat, and the threat would place the person
who is the object of the threat in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily
harm, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
B. Any
person who orally makes a threat to any employee of any elementary, middle or
secondary school, while on a school bus, on school property or at a
school-sponsored activity, to kill or to do bodily injury to such person, is
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
A prosecution pursuant to this section may be either in the county, city or town in which the communication was made or received.
2. That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment or commitment. Pursuant to § 30-19.1:4 of the Code of Virginia, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is $139,052 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.