Digital impersonation; penalty. (SB825)

Introduced By

Sen. Steve Martin (R-Chesterfield)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Impersonation on social networking site; civil cause of action. Creates a civil cause of action for a person who sustains injury from another person's credible impersonation of him on a social networking site with the intent to maliciously injure or defraud the person impersonated. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/05/2015Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100244D
01/05/2015Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
02/02/2015Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 2-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2015Committee substitute printed 15104145D-S1
02/03/2015Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/04/2015Read second time
02/04/2015Reading of substitute waived
02/04/2015Committee substitute agreed to 15104145D-S1
02/04/2015Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB825S1
02/05/2015Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 3-N) (see vote tally)
02/09/2015Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
02/09/2015Placed on Calendar
02/09/2015Read first time
02/09/2015Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
02/09/2015Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
02/11/2015Subcommittee recommends laying on the table
02/24/2015Left in Courts of Justice

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 4 clips in all, totaling 8 minutes.

Comments

Waldo Jaquith writes:

Do we really need a special law for this?