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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Computer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities, penalty."
+description: "Increases the Class 1 misdemeanor computer trespass crimes to a Class 6 felony if the computer affected is one that is exclusively for the use of, or used by or for, the Commonwealth, a local government within the Commonwealth, or certain public utilities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1815"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1815 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations", "Computer Services and Uses", "Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Public Service Companies"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8da40b71-9c32-4498-a254-df9e287ec155"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1815"
+source_hash: "e97ec5256153c3f846c8e0423e665d6d881202df5cd68e41503a5eb638ebc60f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1815 (2017) — Computer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities, penalty.
+
+Increases the Class 1 misdemeanor computer trespass crimes to a Class 6 felony if the computer affected is one that is exclusively for the use of, or used by or for, the Commonwealth, a local government within the Commonwealth, or certain public utilities.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0562)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1815ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1815ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102280D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1815)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102280D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1815E)
+5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105361D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1815S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Appropriations — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105361D-S1 — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David E. Yancey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102280D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-30** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-30** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
+- **2017-02-01** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Assigned App. sub: Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB1815E
+- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17102280D-E
+- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-17** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2017-02-17** Committee substitute agreed to 17105361D-S1
+- **2017-02-17** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1815S1
+- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-21** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105361D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
+- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
+- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 562 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8da40b71-9c32-4498-a254-df9e287ec155`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+