Bill Text: VA HB1072 | 2020 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Profane, threatening, or indecent language; use over public airways or by other methods.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-11 - Left in Courts of Justice [HB1072 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2020-HB1072-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1072 Offered January 8, 2020 Prefiled January 7, 2020 A BILL to amend and reenact §18.2-427 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of profane, threatening, or indecent language over public airways or by other methods. ---------- Patron-- Adams, D.M. ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §18.2-427 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§18.2-427. Use of threatening language or suggestion of obscene nature over public airways or by other methods; penalty.

Any person who uses obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or makes any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threatens any illegal or immoral act with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, over any telephone or citizens band radio, in this the Commonwealth, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

"Over any telephone" includes, for purposes of this section, any electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message that is received or transmitted by cellular telephone or other wireless telecommunications device.