Virginia House Bill 1547 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Harassment by computer; impersonating another; penalty. Provides that a person who uses a computer to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, make an obscene proposal, or threaten an illegal or immoral act with the intent to defraud any person is guilty of harassment by computer, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under current law, in order to be guilty of harassment by computer, a person must have the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person. The bill also provides that it is a Class 6 felony to commit harassment by computer if the person has assumed the identity of another living individual.

Harassment; impersonating another by use of a computer, penalty.

Del. Scott Taylor [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2015-01-07	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101886D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	152.7:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1547
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1547+hil