Virginia House Bill 5067 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on August 18 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Use of a person's identity with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass; public officials; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass another person, to publish the primary residence address of the person's family or household member. The bill also provides that any person who, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass another person, publishes certain identifying information of another person, knowing that person is a public official, defined as any state or federal judge or justice, law-enforcement officer, or attorney for the Commonwealth, is guilty of a Class 6 felony and that the sentence shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months. Under current law, such enhanced penalty applies only for law-enforcement officers.

Person's identity; use with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass, public officials, penalty.

Sen. John McGuire [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-08-18	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-18	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200624D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	186.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5067
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5067+hil