Virginia House Bill 787 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Passed on April 6 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) simple assault or assault and battery where the victim was intentionally selected because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin; (ii) entering the property of another for purposes of damaging such property or its contents or interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant where such property was intentionally selected because of the race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin of the owner, user, or occupant; and (iii) various offenses that tend to cause violence.

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes.

Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]	Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]
Del. Marcia Price [D]

2020-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-18 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) (Y: 55 N: 44 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 6-N) (Y: 13 N: 6 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-06		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747)
2020-04-06		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 747 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-06		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-06	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
2020-02-27	Senate	Signed by President
2020-02-27	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-02-27	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB787ER)
2020-02-27	House	Enrolled
2020-02-24	Senate	Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
2020-02-24	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-21	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-20	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-20	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-19	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-18	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-17	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
2020-02-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-02-07	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-06	House	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
2020-02-06	House	Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N)
2020-02-05	House	Printed as engrossed 20102657D-E
2020-02-05	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB787E
2020-02-05	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2020-02-05	House	Read second time
2020-02-04	House	Read first time
2020-01-31	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 6-N)
2020-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N)
2020-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2020-01-07	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102657D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	215.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB787
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB787+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB787E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB787ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0747+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0801V0058+HB0787
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0129+HB0787
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0477+HB0787
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0341+HB0787
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0702HB0787+HB0787
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0877HB0787+HB0787