Virginia Senate Bill 1502 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) simple assault or assault and battery where the victim was intentionally selected because of his race, religious conviction, color, or national origin; (ii) entering the property of another for purposes of damaging such property or its contents or interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant where such property was intentionally selected because of the race, religious conviction, color, or national origin of the owner, user, or occupant; and (iii) various offenses that tend to cause violence.

Hate crimes; adds to list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2017-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-01	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
2017-01-18	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-18	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 17103952D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	215.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1502
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1502+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03V0191+SB1502