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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sexual extortion; penalty."
+description: "Sexual extortion; penalty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2398"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2398 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 57
+vote_count: 13
+first_action: "2023-01-17"
+last_action: "2023-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c120aa59-bd88-4992-ab34-e7e29aca8a73"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2398"
+source_hash: "09e641f658d096ff77ace47aa7961f027849c88faad24e847c5a01799da09452"
+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 2398 (2023) — Sexual extortion; penalty.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0612** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0612)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23106773D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2398S1)
+3. **Committee substitute printed 23107010D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2398S2)
+4. **Conference substitute printed 23107556D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2398H1)
+5. **HB2398ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2398ER)
+6. **Presented and ordered printed 23104440D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2398)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 3-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 97-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 23104440D `introduction`
+- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from VCSC (HB2398)
+- **2023-01-17** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2398)
+- **2023-01-31** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-03** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-15** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-15** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (12-Y 2-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-15** Committee substitute printed 23106773D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-16** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-16** Committee substitute printed 23107010D-S2 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-17** Impact statement from VCSC (HB2398S2)
+- **2023-02-17** Impact statement from VCSC (HB2398S1)
+- **2023-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB2398S2)
+- **2023-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21** Judiciary Committee substitute rejected 23106773D-S1
+- **2023-02-21** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2023-02-21** Finance and Appropriations Committee substitute agreed to 23107010D-S2 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-21** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2398S2 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-21** Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 1-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-21** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-22** Senate substitute rejected by House 23107010D-S2 (0-Y 97-N)
+- **2023-02-22** VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 97-N)
+- **2023-02-23** Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
+- **2023-02-23** Senate requested conference committee `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23** House acceded to request
+- **2023-02-23** Conferees appointed by House
+- **2023-02-23** Delegates: Bell, Campbell, E.H., Herring
+- **2023-02-23** Conferees appointed by Senate
+- **2023-02-23** Senators: Petersen, Surovell, Stanley
+- **2023-02-25** Amended by conference committee
+- **2023-02-25** Conference substitute printed 23107556D-H1
+- **2023-02-25** Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 3-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-25** Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-25** VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB2398H1)
+- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2398ER) `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-09** Impact statement from DPB (HB2398ER)
+- **2023-03-09** Impact statement from VCSC (HB2398H1)
+- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 612 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c120aa59-bd88-4992-ab34-e7e29aca8a73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+