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The Virginia State Crime Commission has scheduled two days of meetings in August to hear the gun bills the Republican-led General Assembly refused to take up this week.

The Crime Commission will meet Aug. 19-20 to begin its deliberations on the bills, according to an announcement on the commission’s website. The meetings in Richmond will be open to the public, and the commission has set aside three hours for public comment at the Aug. 20 meeting.

More than 60 bills were filed for the election-year special session Gov. Ralph Northam called in the aftermath of the May 31 mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building that left 12 people dead. Northam urged the legislature to consider a variety of gun-control measures, including universal background checks, red flag laws, restrictions on assault-style weapons and reinstatement of the one-handgun-a-month law.

Lawmakers returned to Richmond on Tuesday, but Republican leaders abruptly adjourned the proceedings, saying they would not reconvene to act on gun bills until after the November elections.

Republicans sent the bills to the Crime Commission for study and asked for a report in November.