Virginia Senate Bill 1184 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Failed on February 25 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-02-25 - Failed to pass in Senate
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin 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 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 ethnic origin. Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin 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 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 ethnic origin.

Hate crimes and discrimination; antisemitism, penalties.

Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]	Sen. John Cosgrove [R]	Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]	Sen. Travis Hackworth [R]
Sen. Ryan McDougle [R]	Sen. Stephen Newman [R]	Sen. Thomas Norment [R]

2023-02-23 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2023-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-23 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) (Y: 0 N: 40 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2023-02-20 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-25	Senate	Failed to pass in Senate
2023-02-25	Senate	No further action taken
2023-02-23	House	Delegates: Kilgore, Bell, Filler-Corn
2023-02-23	House	Conferees appointed by House
2023-02-23	Senate	Senators: Reeves, Deeds, Surovell
2023-02-23	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2023-02-23	Senate	Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-23	House	House requested conference committee
2023-02-23	House	House insisted on substitute
2023-02-23	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
2023-02-23	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N)
2023-02-23	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
2023-02-23	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1184H1
2023-02-23	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23107194D-H1
2023-02-23	House	Read third time
2023-02-22	House	Read second time
2023-02-20	House	Committee substitute printed 23107194D-H1
2023-02-20	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
2023-02-17	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
2023-02-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2023-02-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-02-09	House	Read first time
2023-02-09	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1184S1
2023-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 23105369D-S1
2023-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-02	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2023-01-30	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2023-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23105369D-S1
2023-01-30	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2023-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104133D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	121	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3900	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3902	(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?231+sum+SB1184
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1184+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1184S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1184H1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105369D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/23107194D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1184F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1184F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1184FS1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1184FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0090+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S05V0270+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0243SB1184+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0276SB1184+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0277SB1184+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0801V0229+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H08V0309+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0867SB1184+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0908SB1184+SB1184
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2260+SB1184