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| Bill | False caller identification information; penalty. | Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who, with the intent to defraud, intimidate, or harass, causes a telephone to ring and engages in conduct that results in the display of false caller identification information on the called party's telephone. The bill raises the penalty to a Class 2 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill does not apply to the blocking of caller identification information, to law-enforcement agencies and officers, to intelligence or security agencies of the federal government and their employees, or to telecommunications, broadband, or Voice-over-Internet protocol service providers in certain circumstances. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 2170 | Virginia HB 2170 (2019) |
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Virginia HB 2170 (2019) — False caller identification information; penalty.
Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who, with the intent to defraud, intimidate, or harass, causes a telephone to ring and engages in conduct that results in the display of false caller identification information on the called party's telephone. The bill raises the penalty to a Class 2 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill does not apply to the blocking of caller identification information, to law-enforcement agencies and officers, to intelligence or security agencies of the federal government and their employees, or to telecommunications, broadband, or Voice-over-Internet protocol service providers in certain circumstances.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) (committee substitute) — source
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2170ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 19105780D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100163D (committee substitute) — source
- Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — 22–17 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 11–4 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — 98–1 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 16–0 (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — 96–1 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Emily M. Brewer — primary (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100163D
introduction - 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2019-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
referral-committee - 2019-01-29 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-01-30 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 19105780D-H1
- 2019-01-30 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2170H1
- 2019-01-31 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-02-01 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2019-02-11 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-11 Passed by for the day
- 2019-02-12 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-12 Reading of amendment waived
- 2019-02-12 Amendment by Senator Petersen agreed to
amendment-passage - 2019-02-12 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2019-02-14 Placed on Calendar
- 2019-02-14 Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 1-N)
- 2019-02-19 Enrolled
- 2019-02-19 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-20 Signed by President
- 2019-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- 2019-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 476 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c28b503c-33cf-4cda-a554-d7fbd0d55840. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).