Virginia House Bill 878 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Invasion of privacy; civil action; damages; attorney fees and costs. Creates a civil cause of action for the physical and constructive invasion of privacy where a person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass enters onto the land or into the airspace above the land of another person to capture an image, as specified in the bill, of private property or an individual located on the private property without consent or uses any device, including an unmanned aircraft system, to capture such an image in lieu of physically entering the land or airspace. The bill allows a plaintiff to recover the greater of actual damages or $1,000, along with reasonable attorney fees and costs. The bill allows a court to award punitive damages when actual damages are awarded.

Invasion of privacy; civil action, damages, attorney fees and costs.

Del. Timothy Hugo [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-27	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2016-01-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102094D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	40.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB878
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB878+hil