Virginia House Bill 2635 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Social media websites; regulation as public service corporations. Requires the State Corporation Commission to regulate as a public service corporation any social media website that is open to the public, that has more than 75 million subscribers, and that is not specifically affiliated with any one religion or political party from its inception. The measure prohibits such a website from using an assertion, opinion, or belief that religious or political speech constitutes hate speech as a basis for deleting or censoring a user's religious or political speech. The measure authorizes any user of such a regulated website to bring a civil action against its owner for intentionally deleting or censoring the user's religious or political speech in which the user may recover damages and attorney fees and costs.

Social media websites; regulation as public service corporations.

Del. Mark Cole [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2019-01-15	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
2019-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-10	House	Presented and ordered printed 19103783D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2635
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2635+hil