Virginia Senate Bill 584 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-08 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Unmanned aircraft systems; invasion of privacy; civil action; criminal violations. Creates a civil cause of action for the physical and constructive invasion of privacy where a person uses an unmanned aircraft system to enter into the airspace above the land of another person to capture an image, as specified in the bill, of private property or an individual located on the private property without consent or uses an unmanned aircraft system to capture such an image in lieu of physically entering the land or airspace. The bill allows a plaintiff to recover the greater of actual damages or $1,000, along with reasonable attorney fees and costs. The bill allows a court to award punitive damages when actual damages are awarded. The bill also creates crimes for using an unmanned aircraft for unauthorized surveillance of property and persons on the property, peeping and spying, and for taking photographs after receiving written notice that the landowner or individual objects.

Unmanned aircraft systems; civil cause of action created, criminal violations.

Sen. Donald McEachin [D]

2016-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) (Y: 7 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-08	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N)
2016-02-08	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 16105275D-S1
2016-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103144D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	130.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	130.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	130.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	40.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB584
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB584+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB584S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S03V0204+SB0584