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2005 SESSION

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HB 2215 Computer Crimes Act; changes in provisions, penalty.

Introduced by: David B. Albo | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Computer crimes; penalties. Modernizes the Virginia Computer Crimes Act by updating definitions to comport with changing technology, removing superfluous language and relocating language. The bill adds unauthorized installation of software on the computer of another, disruption of another computer's ability to share or transfer information and maliciously obtaining computer information without authority as additional crimes of computer trespass, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also reduces the felony (Class 6) threshold from $2,500 to $1,000 for property damage resulting from computer trespass.

FULL TEXT

• 01/11/05  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 057983134  pdf | impact statements
• 02/04/05  House: Committee substitute printed 055517204-H1  pdf | impact statements
• 03/07/05  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2215ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/04/05  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/11/05  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 057983134
• 01/11/05  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/31/05  House: Reported from C. J. with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
• 01/31/05  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/01/05  House: Assigned to App. sub-committee: Public Safety
• 02/03/05  House: Reported from Appropriations with sub (20-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/05  House: Committee substitute printed 055517204-H1
• 02/05/05  House: Read first time
• 02/07/05  House: Read second time
• 02/07/05  House: Committee substitute agreed to 055517204-H1
• 02/07/05  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2215H1
• 02/08/05  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/09/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/09/05  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/14/05  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice w/amd (11-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/05  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/16/05  Senate: Read third time
• 02/16/05  Senate: Reading of amendment waived
• 02/16/05  Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
• 02/16/05  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 02/16/05  Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/16/05  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/17/05  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/18/05  House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
• 02/18/05  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N)
• 03/07/05  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2215ER)
• 03/09/05  House: Enrolled
• 03/09/05  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/11/05  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/26/05  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 812 (effective 7/1/05)
• 04/04/05  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)