Virginia House Bill 749 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Sexual extortion; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously threaten eviction, loss of housing, property damage, or any financial loss with the intent to cause the complaining witness to engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexual abuse and thereby engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexual abuse. The bill also creates an unclassified felony punishable by not less than one nor more than 20 years and a fine of not more than $100,000 for any adult who violates the provisions of the bill with a person younger than 18 years of age.

Sexual extortion; penalty.

Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Baxter Ennis [R]	Del. Chad Green [R]	Del. Ian Lovejoy [R]
Del. Robert Orrock [R]	Del. Eric Zehr [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100349D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	59.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB749
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB749+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB749F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB749F122+PDF