Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes. (HB787)

Introduced By

Del. Lamont Bagby (D-Richmond) with support from co-patrons Del. Lashrecse D. Aird (D-Petersburg), Del. Jeff Bourne (D-Richmond), Del. Jay Jones (D-Norfolk), and Del. Cia Price (D-Newport News)

Progress

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

Description

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) simple assault or assault and battery where the victim was intentionally selected because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin; (ii) entering the property of another for purposes of damaging such property or its contents or interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant where such property was intentionally selected because of the race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin of the owner, user, or occupant; and (iii) various offenses that tend to cause violence. Read the Bill »

Status

02/17/2020: passed committee

History

Date	Action
01/07/2020	Committee
01/07/2020	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102657D
01/07/2020	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/14/2020	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
01/27/2020	House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
01/27/2020	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N)
01/31/2020	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 6-N) (see vote tally)
02/04/2020	Read first time
02/05/2020	Read second time
02/05/2020	Committee amendment agreed to
02/05/2020	Engrossed by House as amended HB787E
02/05/2020	Printed as engrossed 20102657D-E
02/06/2020	Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N)
02/06/2020	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) (see vote tally)
02/07/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/07/2020	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
02/17/2020	Reported from Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) (see vote tally)
02/18/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 50 seconds.

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