Bill Text: VA HB210 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Extortion; person who threatens injury to property including sale, etc., of identifying information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) [HB210 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2010-HB210-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 210 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee for Courts of Justice on February 3, 2010) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Bulova) A BILL to amend and reenact §18.2-59 of the Code of Virginia, relating to extortion by threat of injury to personal identity or financial security; penalty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §18.2-59 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§18.2-59. Extortion of money, property or pecuniary benefit.

Any person who (i) threatens injury to the character, person, or property of another person, (ii) accuses him of any offense, (iii) threatens to report him as being illegally present in the United States, or (iv) knowingly destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates, withholds or threatens to withhold, or possesses any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of another person, and thereby extorts money, property, or pecuniary benefit or any note, bond, or other evidence of debt from him or any other person, is guilty of a Class 5 felony.

For the purposes of this section, injury to property includes the sale, distribution, or release of identifying information defined in clauses (iii) through (xii) of subsection C of §18.2-186.3, but does not include the distribution or release of such information by a person who does so with the intent to obtain money, property or a pecuniary benefit to which he reasonably believes he is lawfully entitled.

2. That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment or commitment. Pursuant to §30-19.1:4, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is $0 for periods of imprisonment in state adult correctional facilities and is $0 for periods of commitment to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.