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Bill	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.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1815	Virginia HB 1815 (2017)	bill	Appropriations Computer Services and Uses Crimes and Offenses Generally Public Service Companies	enacted	David E. Yancey	5	27	10	2017-01-09	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/8da40b71-9c32-4498-a254-df9e287ec155	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1815	e97ec5256153c3f846c8e0423e665d6d881202df5cd68e41503a5eb638ebc60f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1815ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102280D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17102280D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105361D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/8da40b71-9c32-4498-a254-df9e287ec155. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).