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2003 SESSION

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HB 2020 Restoration of civil right to register to vote.

Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Restoration of civil right to register to vote. Changes the definition of "violent felony," which if committed serves as a disqualifying event for any person seeking to restore his right to be eligible to register to vote. Currently, in this statute "violent felony" includes: homicide, mob violence, abduction and kidnapping, various types of assaults and bodily woundings, robbery, threats of bodily injury, and criminal sexual assaults. Also currently, the definition includes the conspiracy to commit such felonies and principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact. The proposed change would add: burglary and related offenses, personal trespass by computer, certain offenses committed against railroads and other utilities, various firearms and weapons offenses, prostitution, sodomy, various crimes against children, various obscenity offenses, certain offenses causing riots and prohibited paramilitary activity, obstruction of justice, escapes by prisoners, conspiracy to incite one race against another, and certain felonies committed by prisoners that are listed in § 53.1-203. The proposed change includes the conspiracy and the attempt to commit such added felonies and the commission of any substantially similar offense under the laws of the United States or its territories, or of another state, or of the District of Columbia.


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