Hate crimes; adds gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, penalty. (HB1776)
Introduced By
Del. Ken Plum (D-Reston) with support from 6 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:
Those copatrons are Del. Daun Hester (D-Norfolk), Del. Paul Krizek (D-Alexandria), Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria), Del. Joe Lindsey (D-Norfolk), Del. Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke), Del. Marcus Simon (D-Falls Church)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
☐ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Hate crimes; gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability; penalty. Adds gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability 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 these categories of victims 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. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/09/2017 | Committee |
01/09/2017 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102505D |
01/09/2017 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
01/11/2017 | Impact statement from VCSC (HB1776) |
01/13/2017 | Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law |
01/24/2017 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1776) |
01/30/2017 | Subcommittee recommends laying on the table |
02/07/2017 | Left in Courts of Justice |
Comments
The ACLU of Virginia supports this bill that extends the enhanced penalties for certain bias motivated criminal conduct to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.