Virginia Senate Bill 4026 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on July 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-07-09 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Social media providers; threats of violence. Requires a social media provider to report to the appropriate law-enforcement agency any threat of violence against any person in the Commonwealth posted or communicated via a user message on any website or other application operated by the social media provider. The measure requires the social media provider to determine the appropriate law-enforcement agency based on the physical location of (i) the user who posted or communicated the threat of violence and (ii) the person who is the subject of the threat of violence, if such location information is available. The measure provides that a social media provider that becomes aware of a threat of violence and fails to immediately report such threat of violence to the appropriate law-enforcement agency is liable for any damages thereafter sustained by any person who was the subject of a threat of violence as the result of any incident of violence that is perpetrated by the user who posted the threat of violence.

Social media providers; threats of violence.

Sen. William Stanley [R]

2019-07-09 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-07-09	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
2019-07-09	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-07-09	Senate	Introduced bill reprinted 19200096D
2019-07-09	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 19200096D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
59	1	571	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?192+sum+SB4026
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?192+ful+SB4026+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?192+vot+S03V0023+SB4026