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HB488

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

Status:
Consolidated

Chief Patron:
Kaye Kory (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. 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, and 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. This bill was incorporated into HB 618. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/03/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103282D
  • 01/03/2020 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 01/06/2020 - House: Impact statement from VCSC (HB488)
  • 01/14/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB488)
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB618-Plum)
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB618-Plum)

Full text and vote history:

Virginia Legislative Information System

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