Virginia Senate Bill 120

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-24 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; 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; ethnic animosity, penalties.

Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]

Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2024-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-24	Senate	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2024-01-10	Senate	Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
2024-01-04	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-04	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103033D

HB18 (Similar To) 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)
SB7 (Similar To) 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334)

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	49.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB120
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB120+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24105372D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB120F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB120F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S13V0047+SB0120