Virginia House Bill 1665 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Battery against a sports official; penalty. Provides that if any person commits a battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such other person is a sports official engaged in the performance of his duties as such, he is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides that the sentence of such person upon conviction shall include a mandatory minimum fine of $500 and such person shall be ordered to perform a mandatory minimum of 20 hours of community service as a condition of probation supervision. A "sports official" is defined in the bill as a coach, umpire, referee, line judge, or other person employed or volunteering in a similar capacity during an amateur or professional sporting event.

Sports officials; person who commits battery against official, penalty.

Del. C.E. Hayes [D]

Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]

Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-02-02	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-01-17	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-01-17	House	Presented and ordered printed 20105053D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1665
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1665+hil