Hate crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials, penalty. (HB5098)

Introduced By

Del. Alex Askew (D-Virginia Beach) with support from 6 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:

Those copatrons are Del. Hala Ayala (D-Woodbridge), Del. Kaye Kory (D-Falls Church), Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington), Del. Ken Plum (D-Reston), Del. Cia Price (D-Newport News), Del. Rodney Willett (D-Henrico)

Progress

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

Description

Hate crime; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases the penalty for falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony when a person intentionally gives a false report as to the commission of any crime to any law-enforcement official, causes another to give a false report to any law-enforcement official, or calls or summons any law-enforcement official against another person because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin. Read the Bill »

Status

09/16/2020: passed committee

History

Date	Action
08/20/2020	Presented and ordered printed 20200320D
08/20/2020	Impact statement from VCSC (HB5098)
08/20/2020	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
08/26/2020	House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
08/26/2020	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N) (see vote tally)
08/26/2020	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
08/26/2020	Committee substitute printed 20201045D-H1
08/27/2020	Impact statement from VCSC (HB5098H1)
08/28/2020	Impact statement from DPB (HB5098H1)
08/31/2020	Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N) (see vote tally)
09/02/2020	Read first time
09/03/2020	Read second time
09/03/2020	Committee substitute agreed to 20201045D-H1
09/03/2020	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5098H1
09/04/2020	Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N)
09/04/2020	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N) (see vote tally)
09/09/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
09/09/2020	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
09/16/2020	Reported from Judiciary (7-Y 2-N) (see vote tally)
09/16/2020	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations