Harsher penalties for school threats bill now heads to Governor Lee

A bipartisan bill sponsored by a local lawmaker that would increase the penalty for making school threats has passed the General Assembly. The bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Jon Lundberg of Bristol, would raise the penalty for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, with a sentence of one to six years in prison. It will now head to the governor’s desk.