Virginia Senate Bill 45 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on November 21 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-15 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Hate crimes; disability; civil action; penalty. Adds disability to the bases of a victim's intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property that result in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also adds disability to the bases 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 also provides that a person who is subjected to acts of (i) intimidation or harassment, (ii) violence, or (iii) vandalism to his real or personal property, where such act is motived by disability, 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 disability.

Hate crimes; disability, civil action, penalty.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

Sen. Dave Marsden [D]

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

2018-01-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-15	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
2018-01-15	Senate	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 18104779D-S1
2017-11-21	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-11-21	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100377D

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?181+sum+SB45
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB45+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB45S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0035+SB0045