Virginia Senate Bill 179 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1171)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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. The bill 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. The bill also eliminates the mandatory minimum terms of confinement for such hate crimes.

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

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. John Bell [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]
Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]	Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N) (Y: 22 N: 17 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) (Y: 55 N: 44 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-24 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 9-N) (Y: 13 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N) (Y: 26 N: 13 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 1-N) (Y: 15 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-15 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 3-N) (Y: 8 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-11		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1171)
2020-04-11		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1171 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-06	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-06	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-06	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB179ER)
2020-03-06	Senate	Enrolled
2020-03-02	Senate	House amendment agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N)
2020-02-27	House	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
2020-02-27	House	Passed House with amendment (55-Y 44-N)
2020-02-27	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2020-02-27	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2020-02-27	House	Read third time
2020-02-26	House	Read second time
2020-02-24	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 9-N)
2020-02-19	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2020-02-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N)
2020-02-18	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-02-18	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-02-18	House	Read first time
2020-02-18	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-10	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N)
2020-02-07	Senate	Printed as engrossed 20105706D-ES1
2020-02-07	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB179ES1
2020-02-07	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2020-02-07	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-02-07	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20105706D-S1
2020-02-07	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-07	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-05	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 1-N)
2020-01-15	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-01-15	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20105706D-S1
2020-01-15	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 3-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2019-12-21	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2019-12-21	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102367D

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?201+sum+SB179
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB179+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB179S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB179ES1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB179ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1171+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0039+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0163+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0382SB0179+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0432SB0179+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0186+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0383+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1577+SB0179
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1333SB0179+SB0179