Virginia House Bill 618 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Passed on April 6 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation 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 adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories 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 provides that a person who is subjected to acts of intimidation or harassment, violence directed against his person, or vandalism to his real or personal property, where such acts are motivated by gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, 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 gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill also eliminates the mandatory minimum terms of confinement for such hate crimes. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, penalty, effective clause.

Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Mark Keam [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

2020-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 43-N) (Y: 54 N: 43 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) (Y: 24 N: 16 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) (Y: 32 N: 0 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 5-N) (Y: 8 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N) (Y: 56 N: 43 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 8-N) (Y: 9 N: 8 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-06		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
2020-04-06		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 746 (effective - see bill)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-03	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-02	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-02	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB618ER)
2020-03-02	House	Enrolled
2020-02-26	House	VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 43-N)
2020-02-26	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108748D-S1 (54-Y 43-N)
2020-02-26	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-24	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N)
2020-02-24	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB618S1
2020-02-24	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20108748D-S1
2020-02-24	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-24	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-21	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
2020-02-19	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20108748D-S1
2020-02-19	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 5-N)
2020-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-11	House	VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N)
2020-02-11	House	Read third time and passed House (56-Y 43-N)
2020-02-10	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB618H1
2020-02-10	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20106360D-H1
2020-02-10	House	Read second time
2020-02-09	House	Read first time
2020-02-07	House	Incorporates HB488 (Kory)
2020-02-07	House	Committee substitute printed 20106360D-H1
2020-02-07	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 8-N)
2020-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N)
2020-02-04	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-01-06	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100865D

HB488 (Similar To) 2020-02-07 - 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
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?201+sum+HB618
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB618+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB618H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB618S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB618ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0746+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0138+HB0618
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0233+HB0618
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0864+HB0618
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0391+HB0618
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0846HB0618+HB0618
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0906HB0618+HB0618
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1452+HB0618