Virginia House Bill 18 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-3)
Status: Passed on April 2 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin 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 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 ethnic origin.

Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, penalties.

Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Charniele Herring [D]	Del. Terry Kilgore [R]	Del. Don Scott [D]
Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Bonita Anthony [D]	Del. Alex Askew [D]	Del. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker [D]
Del. Katrina Callsen [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Nadarius Clark [D]	Del. Laura Jane Cohen [D]
Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler [D]	Del. AC Cordoza [R]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Michael Feggans [D]
Del. Debra Gardner [D]	Del. Rozia Henson [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Michael Jones [D]
Del. Karen Keys-Gamarra [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Michelle Maldonado [D]
Del. Marty Martinez [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. David Reid [D]
Del. Holly Seibold [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]	Del. Richard Sullivan [D]
Del. Joshua Thomas [D]	Del. Jeion Ward [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]	Del. Rodney Willett [D]
Del. Wren Williams [R]

2024-03-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-05 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-04-02		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)
2024-04-02		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 266 (effective 7/1/24)
2024-03-11		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
2024-03-11	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
2024-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2024-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2024-03-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB18ER)
2024-03-07	House	Enrolled
2024-03-01	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2024-03-01	Senate	Read third time
2024-02-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2024-02-28	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
2024-02-21	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2024-02-21	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N)
2024-02-14	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-02-14	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2024-02-13	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2024-02-13	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2024-02-12	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB18H1
2024-02-12	House	Committee substitute agreed to 24106860D-H1
2024-02-12	House	Read second time
2024-02-09	House	Read first time
2024-02-07	House	Committee substitute printed 24106860D-H1
2024-02-07	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2024-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
2024-01-31	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2023-12-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-12-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101031D

SB7 (Similar To) 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334)
SB120 (Similar To) 2024-01-24 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	121	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	57	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3900	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3902	(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?241+sum+HB18
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB18+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB18H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB18ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0266+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24106860D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/24106860D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB18F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB18F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB18FH1160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB18FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB18FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0801V0103+HB0018
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H08V0131+HB0018
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+HV0738+HB0018
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S13V0253+HB0018
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0483+HB0018
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+SV0819HB0018+HB0018
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+SV0856HB0018+HB0018