HB 871

            
2020 SESSION

20100430D

HOUSE BILL NO. 871


Offered January 8, 2020


Prefiled January 7, 2020

A BILL to amend and reenact � 18.2-58 of the Code of Virginia, 
 relating to robbery; penalty.
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Patrons-- Bourne, Aird and Bagby

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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
 
 
1. That � 18.2-58 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:
 
 
� 18.2-58. Robbery defined; penalty.
 
 
A. If 
 any person commit commits 
 robbery by partial strangulation, or suffocation, or by 
 striking or beating, or by other violence to the person, or by assault or 
 otherwise putting a person in fear of serious bodily harm, or by the threat or 
 presenting of firearms, or other deadly weapon or instrumentality whatsoever, as defined herein, he shall be is 
 guilty of a felony and shall be punished by confinement in a 
 state correctional facility for life or any term not less than five years. as follows:
 
 
1. If any person commits 
 robbery by causing serious bodily injury to the victim, such person is guilty 
 of robbery in the first degree, 
 which is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a 
 maximum term of life.
 
 
2. If any person commits 
 robbery by displaying a firearm in a threatening manner, such person is guilty 
 of robbery in the second degree, which is punishable by 
 confinement in a state correctional facility for a maximum term of 20 years.
 
 
3. If any 
 person commits robbery by using 
 physical force not resulting in serious bodily injury, or by displaying a deadly 
 weapon other than a firearm in a threatening manner, such person is guilty of 
 robbery in the third degree, which is punishable as a Class 
 5 felony.
 
 
4. If any 
 person commits robbery by using threat 
 or intimidation not involving a deadly weapon, such person is guilty of robbery 
 in the fourth degree, which is punishable as a Class 6 felony.
 
 
B. As 
 used in this section, "robbery" means the taking, with the intent to 
 steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or his presence, 
 against his will, by violence or intimidation.
 
 
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 $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.