Virginia Senate Bill 112 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 15 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-15 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Hate crimes; gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability; penalty. Adds disability, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also adds disability, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation status to the categories of hate crimes that are to be reported to the central repository of information regarding hate crimes maintained by the Virginia State Police. The bill also provides that a person who is subjected to acts of vandalism to his real or personal property, where such vandalism is motived by disability, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation, may bring a civil action to recover his damages. The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the basis of disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation.

Hate crimes; criminal acts against persons because of gender, etc.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2018-01-15 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) (Y: 6 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-15	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N)
2018-01-15	Senate	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 18104781D-S1
2017-12-15	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-12-15	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102950D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	121	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	42.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	49.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB112
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB112+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB112S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0036+SB0112