Virginia House Bill 2399 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) simple assault or assault and battery where the victim was intentionally selected because of his race, religious conviction, color, or national origin; (ii) entering the property of another for purposes of damaging such property or its contents or interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant where such property was intentionally selected because of the race, religious conviction, color, or national origin of the owner, user, or occupant; and (iii) various offenses that tend to cause violence.

Hate crimes; adds to list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate.

Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Mark Dudenhefer [R]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2017-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-01-24	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2017-01-18	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 17104114D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	215.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2399
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2399+hil