Virginia House Bill 719 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Hate crimes; immigration status; civil action; penalty. Adds immigration status to the bases of a victim's intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property that result in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also adds immigration status to the bases of hate crimes that are to be reported to the central repository of information regarding hate crimes maintained by the Virginia State Police. The bill also provides that a person who is subjected to acts of (i) intimidation or harassment, (ii) violence, or (iii) vandalism to his real or personal property, where such act is motived by animosity toward a person's immigration status, may bring a civil action to recover his damages. The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the basis of immigration status.

Hate crimes; immigration status, civil action, penalty.

Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Cheryl Turpin [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2018-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-26	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (4-Y 3-N)
2018-01-25	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102334D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	121	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	42.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	49.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB719
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB719+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0801V0060+HB0719