republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020speciali/hb-5098.md

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Bill	Hate crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials, penalty.	Hate crime; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases the penalty for falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, which shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, when a person intentionally gives a false report as to the commission of any crime to any law-enforcement official, causes another to give a false report to any law-enforcement official, or calls or summons any law-enforcement official against another person because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020specialI	HB 5098	Virginia HB 5098 (2020specialI)	bill		enacted		4	31	7	2020-08-20	2020-10-21	openstates	ocd-bill/7976d6d9-f374-4306-8704-ab7aa74c4383	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5098	42b2b4051e33b8d117c4d7041f7bd9ca632f4bcd6a45ee3f9ce115ba23804f82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 5098 (2020specialI) — Hate crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials, penalty.

Hate crime; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases the penalty for falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, which shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, when a person intentionally gives a false report as to the commission of any crime to any law-enforcement official, causes another to give a false report to any law-enforcement official, or calls or summons any law-enforcement official against another person because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5098ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from VCSC (HB5098) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from VCSC (HB5098H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) — 24–16 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N) — 54–43 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N) — 13–8 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (7-Y 2-N) — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

• 2020-08-20 Presented and ordered printed 20200320D introduction
• 2020-08-20 Impact statement from VCSC (HB5098)
• 2020-08-20 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-08-26 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2020-08-26 Committee substitute printed 20201045D-H1 substitution
• 2020-08-26 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-08-27 Impact statement from VCSC (HB5098H1)
• 2020-08-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB5098H1)
• 2020-08-31 Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2020-09-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-09-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-09-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20201045D-H1
• 2020-09-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5098H1
• 2020-09-04 Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-09-04 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N)
• 2020-09-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-09-09 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-09-16 Reported from Judiciary (7-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-09-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-09-24 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-09-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
• 2020-10-01 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-10-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-10-01 Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) passage
• 2020-10-07 Enrolled
• 2020-10-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB5098ER)
• 2020-10-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-10-07 Signed by President
• 2020-10-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
• 2020-10-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
• 2020-10-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 22 (effective 3/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7976d6d9-f374-4306-8704-ab7aa74c4383. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).