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Bill	Hate crimes; reporting to State Police.	Virginia State Police; reporting hate crimes. Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person or the person's property because of disability, as defined in the bill, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identification and requires the reporting of the commission of such crime to the State Police. This bill incorporates HB 1058.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 276	Virginia HB 276 (2020)	bill		enacted	Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.	5	35	7	2019-12-30	2020-03-04	openstates	ocd-bill/ccb3f2a2-9826-4e1e-b178-e0c29c109455	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB276	b200d36932064391a8ead49858ca8470b07235b8c6400cd508d771629dfe47b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 276 (2020) — Hate crimes; reporting to State Police.

Virginia State Police; reporting hate crimes. Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person or the person's property because of disability, as defined in the bill, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identification and requires the reporting of the commission of such crime to the State Police. This bill incorporates HB 1058.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB276ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB276H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB276H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (HB276S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (60-Y 39-N) — 59–39 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (27-Y 13-N) — 27–13 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (61-Y 37-N) — 60–37 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-12-30 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101151D introduction
• 2019-12-30 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
• 2020-01-22 Committee substitute printed 20106263D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-22 Incorporates HB1058 (Kory)
• 2020-01-22 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20106263D-H1
• 2020-01-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB276H1
• 2020-01-28 Read third time and passed House (61-Y 37-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-28 VOTE: Passage (61-Y 37-N)
• 2020-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-01-29 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB276H1)
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-12 Committee substitute printed 20108222D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (HB276S1)
• 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-17 Committee substitute agreed to 20108222D-S1
• 2020-02-17 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB276S1
• 2020-02-17 Passed Senate with substitute (27-Y 13-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108222D-S1 (60-Y 39-N)
• 2020-02-19 VOTE: Adoption (60-Y 39-N)
• 2020-02-21 Enrolled
• 2020-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-24 Signed by President
• 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB276ER)
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2020
• 2020-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 124 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccb3f2a2-9826-4e1e-b178-e0c29c109455. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).