republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-18.md

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Bill	Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, penalties.	Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin 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 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 ethnic origin. This bill is identical to SB 7.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 18	Virginia HB 18 (2024)	bill		enacted	Dan I. Helmer	4	34	7	2023-12-11	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/db0a3390-0c7e-419b-9896-3ef89e364086	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB18	fe7f0aba8a000041b2dc2b762573f612a104a78292182c814cbcdea64cd90986	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 18 (2024) — Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, penalties.

Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin 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 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 ethnic origin. This bill is identical to SB 7.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0266 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106860D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB18ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101031D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dan I. Helmer — primary (person)
• A.C. Cordoza — cosponsor (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Don Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
• Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101031D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-11 Impact statement from VCSC (HB18)
• 2023-12-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (HB18)
• 2024-01-31 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute printed 24106860D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Impact statement from VCSC (HB18H1)
• 2024-02-09 Impact statement from DPB (HB18H1)
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 24106860D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB18H1 substitution
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-21 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB18ER) passage
• 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB18ER)
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-08 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 266 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db0a3390-0c7e-419b-9896-3ef89e364086. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).