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Bill Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, penalty, effective clause. Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of hate crimes that are to be reported to the central repository of information regarding hate crimes maintained by the Virginia State Police. The bill provides that a person who is subjected to acts of intimidation or harassment, violence directed against his person, or vandalism to his real or personal property, where such acts are motivated by gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, may bring a civil action to recover his damages. The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the basis of gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill also eliminates the mandatory minimum terms of confinement for such hate crimes. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. This bill incorporates HB 488. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 HB 618 Virginia HB 618 (2020)
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Virginia HB 618 (2020) — Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, penalty, effective clause.

Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of hate crimes that are to be reported to the central repository of information regarding hate crimes maintained by the Virginia State Police. The bill provides that a person who is subjected to acts of intimidation or harassment, violence directed against his person, or vandalism to his real or personal property, where such acts are motivated by gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, may bring a civil action to recover his damages. The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the basis of gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill also eliminates the mandatory minimum terms of confinement for such hate crimes. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. This bill incorporates HB 488.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB618ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from VCSC (HB618) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Impact statement from VCSC (HB618H1) (committee substitute) — source
  5. Impact statement from VCSC (HB618S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 43-N) — 53–43 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 8-N) — 9–8 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 5-N) — 8–5 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) — 24–16 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N) — 55–43 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N) — 4–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Kenneth R. Plum — primary (person)
  • Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
  • Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
  • Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
  • Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
  • Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100865D introduction
  • 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2020-01-08 Impact statement from VCSC (HB618)
  • 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB618)
  • 2020-02-04 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
  • 2020-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 3-N)
  • 2020-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 8-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-07 Committee substitute printed 20106360D-H1 substitution
  • 2020-02-07 Incorporates HB488 (Kory)
  • 2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-10 Impact statement from VCSC (HB618H1)
  • 2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 20106360D-H1
  • 2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB618H1
  • 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 43-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N)
  • 2020-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB618H1)
  • 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2020-02-19 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-19 Committee substitute printed 20108748D-S1 substitution
  • 2020-02-21 Impact statement from VCSC (HB618S1)
  • 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-02-24 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2020-02-24 Committee substitute agreed to 20108748D-S1
  • 2020-02-24 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB618S1
  • 2020-02-24 Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) passage
  • 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB618S1)
  • 2020-02-26 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-26 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108748D-S1 (54-Y 43-N)
  • 2020-02-26 VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 43-N)
  • 2020-03-02 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB618ER)
  • 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-03 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
  • 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 746 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/445b1f79-fc6f-48f2-9e9b-27f5c4f84956. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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