VA SB1375 | 2019 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-01-14 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Summary

Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, 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 gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation 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 and provides that a person who is subjected to acts of intimidation or harassment, violence directed against his person, or vandalism to his real or personal property, where such acts are motivated by gender, disability, gender identity, or 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 gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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Title

Hate crimes; adds gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, penalty.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2019-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) (Y: 6 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

History

DateChamberAction
2019-01-14SenateFailed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N)
2019-01-14SenateCommittee substitute printed to LIS only 19104760D-S1
2019-01-08SenateReferred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-08SenatePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101001D

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
182121(n/a)See Bill Text
18257(n/a)See Bill Text
80142.1(n/a)See Bill Text
80149.1(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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