Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue.
Summary
Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue. Removes provisions that allow certain crimes relating to threats and harassment to be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if venue cannot otherwise be established and (i) the victim is the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia and (ii) such official or employee was threatened or harassed while engaged in the performance of his public duties or because of his position with the Commonwealth. The bill also removes provisions that allow threats to damage property to be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if (a) venue cannot otherwise be established and (b) the threatened property is owned by the Commonwealth and located in the Capitol District.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Signed Apr 11, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 2, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2022
How they voted
28–12
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 2, 2022
D
Democratic21
57% Nay
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
8
Committee
6
Apr 11, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 336 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (28-Y 12-N)
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (23-Y 17-N)
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by temporarily
upper
Feb 28, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 7-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 9-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Jan 18, 2022
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102118D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Nick Freitas
RRepublican
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