Hate crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials, penalty.
Summary
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, which shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, 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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Aug 2020
Committee Review
Sep 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Sep 2020
Senate Passage
Oct 2020
Signed into Law
Oct 2020
Introduced Aug 20, 2020
Signed Oct 21, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Oct 1, 2020 · House of Delegates Sep 4, 2020
How they voted
24–16
Passed
Total votes 40
Oct 1, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
84% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
10
Committee
10
Oct 21, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 22 (effective 3/1/21)
executive
Oct 1, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N)
upper
Oct 1, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by temporarily
upper
Sep 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
upper
Sep 16, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Sep 16, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (7-Y 2-N)
upper
Sep 9, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Sep 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N)
lower
Sep 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5098H1
lower
Sep 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20201045D-H1
lower
Aug 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
lower
Aug 26, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Aug 26, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
lower
Aug 20, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Aug 20, 2020
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 20200320D
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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