Hate crimes; associational relationships, penalty.

Hate crimes; associational relationships; penalty.Redefines the categories of victims whose intentional selection fora hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminalpenalty for the offense to include a person's actual or perceivedrace, color, ethnicity, religious conviction, national origin, gender,sex, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientationor a person's actual or perceived association with another personor group of a certain actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity,religious conviction, national origin, gender, sex, disability, genderidentity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. The bill addsthese categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hatecrime involves malicious wounding and makes such crime punishableby a term of imprisonment of not less than five years, nor more than40 years. The bill also redefines these categories for the purposesof reporting hate crimes to the central repository of informationmaintained by the Virginia State Police, for civil actions to recoverdamages for vandalism, and for interactive computer service liability.