Hate crimes; reporting to State Police.
Summary
Virginia State Police; reporting hate crimes. Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person or the person's property because of disability, as defined in the bill, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identification and requires the reporting of the commission of such crime to the State Police. This bill incorporates HB 1058.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Dec 30, 2019
Signed Mar 4, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
35
Key actions
10
Committee
10
Mar 4, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 124 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 17, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with substitute (27-Y 13-N)
upper
Feb 17, 2020
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB276S1
upper
Feb 17, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20108222D-S1
upper
Feb 12, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 37-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB276H1
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20106263D-H1
lower
Jan 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
lower
Jan 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2020
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Dec 30, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Dec 30, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101151D
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Rip Sullivan
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Mark H. Levine
DDemocratic
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